Dov Charney, the chief of American Apparel, is in court this week facing allegations of sexual harassment from one of his former employees. Carla Hall of the Los Angeles Times reports on the case of a ...

Christopher Sturm wasn’t normally approached by women, especially on the street. But as he was walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto one afternoon, a girl suddenly came up to him. She was ...

American Apparel’s billboards were hard to miss when traversing Los Angeles in the 2000s. The ubiquitous ads for the L.A.-based clothing company featured gritty, amateurish photos of seemingly ...

The following is an excerpt from Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles, by Kate Flannery. Flannery was hired at the iconic clothing brand American Apparel in 2005, as its founder Dov ...

“It was a fashion cult. I loved every second of it — until I didn’t," one employee says in the trailer for 'Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel' Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.