Many associate the stores with goth, emo, punk, or grunge. But Hot Topic has grown to become much more than its ‘90s persona. It’s evolved into a pop culture fashion leader and one of the ...

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Can the retailer's nonconformist ways ever meet Wall Street's expectations? It's been a long three years for Hot Topic (NASDAQ:HOTT), but it looks like investors will have to suffer for a while longer ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For 25 years, Hot Topic has been called “the Goth store” – the place in the mall for teens looking for rock tees, body jewelry, hair dye and black clothes with zippers, ...

Hot Topic, a brand iconic for bringing counter-culture apparel and accessories to malls across the United States, is now bringing skins to the metaverse with its Roblox Hot Topic Halloween Forever ...

In the ’90s, it was hard to imagine the fashions we were wearing would ever return to the mainstream. Even then, we knew that our neon caps and Blink-182 T-shirts were not what anyone could call ...

Longtime Goth-teen store fave Hot Topic (HOTT) rocked right through the first year of the downturn. Then, fickle teens turned on the 650-store chain, shrinking its sales for a year straight, including ...

If there's any mall store that deserves some extra love, it's Hot Topic. A refuge to mall goths, mall goths' impatient moms, and those looking for a nostalgia trip, it feels important to point out ...

Unless you've got a teenager or stockbroker in the house, you probably haven't heard about Hot Topic. The specialty retailer -- which caters to goths, punks, rockers and other teen subcultures -- is ...

2020, a year in which My Chemical Romance fans have scrambled to re-pierce their eyebrows and shimmy back into those pinstripe black pants in time for a reunion tour, represents a perfect opportunity ...

Shoppers browse through a Hot Topic store in 2002 at the Serramonte mall in California. In the early 2000s, Hot Topic targeted a customer base between the ages of 12 and 22. (Photo: Getty Images) ...