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Citation : Brooks Brothers has dressed generations of families, prominent and less famous, as well as political leaders, Hollywood legends, sports greats and military heroes.

Andy Warhol was known to buy and wear clothes from Brooks Brothers. According to Carlton Walters: "I got to [know] Andy quite well, and he always looked bedraggled: always had his tie lopsided, as he didn't have time to tie it, and he never tied his shoe laces, and he even wore different colored socks, but he bought all of his clothes at Brooks Brothers..."[3]

Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra[4]

Brooks Brothers supplies clothes for the TV show "Mad Men"

Characters on Gossip Girl frequently wear clothes from Brooks Brothers.

Brooks Brothers is frequently sought out by costume designers in Hollywood, dressing stars in such films as Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor, Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums, and Will Smith in Ali.[5] The company produced made to measure period costumes for Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters.

At his second inauguration, United States President Abraham Lincoln wore a coat specially crafted for him by Brooks Brothers. Hand stitched into the coat's lining was a design featuring an eagle and the inscription, "One Country, One Destiny."[6] It is common mythology that Lincoln was wearing a black suit by Brooks Brothers when he was assassinated. This story, although widely touted, is not true. Lincoln was, however, wearing a Brooks Brothers overcoat when he was killed. Brooks Brothers' choice to exclude black suits in its made to measure lineup was entirely sartorial in nature.

United States President Ulysses S. Grant began his association with Brooks Brothers during the Civil War, when he ordered tailored uniforms for the Union officers in the American Civil War.

Many more presidents, including Herbert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush (who, however, when accused of being a Brooks Brothers Republican, revealed that he was wearing a J. Press suit), and Bill Clinton were known to wear Brooks Brothers clothing lines.

Stephen Colbert, of the Colbert Report and formerly of the Daily Show and Strangers with Candy, has all of his suits for the Colbert Report supplied by Brooks Brothers.

James Thurber refers to Brooks Brothers shirts in some of his short stories. Kurt Vonnegut also refers to a Brooks Brothers suit worn by the main character in his book Jailbird.

Richard Yates not only wore Brooks Brothers clothing throughout his life, but he often referred to the brand in his writing, notably in A Good School, in which one of the characters tries to hang himself with a Brooks Brothers belt.

Bret Easton Ellis refers to clothing from Brooks Brothers worn by Patrick Bateman and his colleagues in his controversial novel American Psycho.

Citation : Characters on Gossip Girl frequently wear clothes from Brooks Brothers.