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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the early 2000s, American Apparel was taking off in Los Angeles and around the country, selling an irresistible image of sexiness to then-teenage millennials. That was years before founder and CEO ...

American Apparel does not want Dov Charney to return. The bankrupt retailer’s board rejected a $300 million takeover bid from investors aligned with its fallen founder, two people familiar with the ...

Dov Charney is a practical lesson in how not to handle employee relations. The American Apparel CEO has been battling sexual harassment accusations for at least seven years. Despite the company's ...

American Apparel founder and CEO Dov Charney got ousted by his own board of directors because of an ongoing misconduct investigation. Charney has long been one of fashion’s most controversial figures: ...

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 ...