Netflix's newest documentary shines a light on the alleged toxic work culture at American Apparel. Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel hit the streaming platform today, charting the meteoric rise ...

The Gist: Early testimonials in Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel paint broad strokes of the titular clothing brand and its more sinister underbelly. As one interviewee puts it, “It was a ...

His rise and fall from American Apparel was documented in a 2025 installment of Netflix's Trainwreck docuseries Netflix's Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel chronicled the fashion empire Dov ...

An internal investigation at American Apparel Inc has found that its CEO Dov Charney violated company policies, ranging from misusing company funds to failing to stop the discrediting of at least one ...

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 ...

“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.

Netflix last week debuted “Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel,” a documentary that chronicles the rise and fall of the cult clothing brand. Central to American Apparel’s story is founder Dov ...

If at one point it felt as if there was an American Apparel store on every corner, that was certainly the idea. The brand, founded in 1989 by Dov Charney, exploded in popularity in the mid-'00s.

After he was booted out of the company he founded, former American Apparel CEO Dov Charney went on to collaborate with another controversial figure: Kanye West. But even though Charney made a name for ...

At least five former employees claimed that Dov Charney sexually harassed them while working at American Apparel, which he denied Keith Bedford/Bloomberg via Getty Dov Charney was the CEO of American ...