Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images A sign hangs above an American Apparel store in the Wicker Park neighborhood September 4, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

Netflix's 'Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel' traces the brand's rise and fall. 'InStyle' takes a look back at the clothes that defined indie sleaze. When I started college in the early 2010s, ...