Brooks Brothers

Brooks Brothers is the oldest surviving American Haberdasher. Today, the company offers in the mid to upper price segment to a private, international branch network clothing, shoes, accessories and perfume for men, women and children, and home products. Brooks Brothers is known for business wardrobe as well as leisure wear in preppy and Ivy League - style classic.

The company was founded in 1818 as H. & D. H. Brooks & Co by Henry Sands Brooks founded in New York City. 1854, the company name was changed from the heirs in Brooks Brothers. The company's headquarters is located since 1915 at New York's Madison Avenue. Owner of the company since 2001, the Retail Brand Alliance. Until the 1990s, Brooks Brothers made ​​exclusively in the USA, Western Europe and Canada. Nowadays, with few exceptions, mainly produced in Asia. In the U.S., there was the end of the 2000s about 200 Brooks Brothers stores. In the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Chile, Peru, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore beginning of the 2010s there were many other stores. Since 1991 there is also factory outlet stores; In 2011 there were 102 of them in the U.S. and 25 other world. Hallmark of the company since 1850, a stylized Golden Fleece (English Golden Fleece ) and an encompassed in a gold bow sheep (a symbol of Flemish and British wool merchants of the 15th century ). The company is proud of in the past by numerous U.S. presidents - to have been selected as a men - from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama. Andy Warhol was also a self-confessed fan of Brooks Brothers.

Already in 1845, the company offered in addition to custom-made suits and military uniforms and men's suits off the rack, when it was common practice to leave to make a suit from the tailor. In 1896, the first button -down shirt from Brooks Brothers introduced under the brand name Polo, after this kind of shirt collar had been sighted at brititschen polo players. Ralph Lauren, who until 1964 worked as a salesman at Brooks Brothers in 1962, acquired in 1967 the rights to the brand Polo and thus founded his own company, Polo Ralph Lauren. In 1946, Brooks Brothers sold by the heirs to the Washington Department store chain Julius Garfinckel & Co., Inc. (1990 liquidated ). Hollywood stars such as Cary Grant, Clark Gable and James Stewart were among celebrity clients from Brooks Brothers. 1949, the company entered with a small selection of blouses for the first time the terrain of women's fashion. Previously had repeatedly female customers, including celebrities such as Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich, covered with men's models from Brooks Brothers. The women's fashion has been expanded over the years. In 1969 there were a total of ten Brooks Brothers stores in U.S. cities. 1979 opened the first store in Tokyo. Since then, its presence in Japan has been greatly expanded. In 1980, the American department store chain Allied Stores Corp.. the company Brooks Brothers. 1988 Brooks Brothers was acquired by the British retail chain Marks & Spencer, which further sold the company in 2001 to Retail Brand Alliance (RBA ). RBA is owned by the Italian businessman and billionaire Claudio Del Vecchio, whose father Leonardo Del Vecchio founded the eyewear manufacturer Luxottica. 2005 two Brooks Brothers stores were opened in London for the first time; 2006 was followed by a branch in Paris. Since the end of 2011, the men's and children's collections may also be purchased outside their stores at Nordstrom.

2006 announced Brooks Brothers Black Fleece under the name by Brooks Brothers (German black fleece), a designer fashion collection in collaboration with the New York fashion designer Thom Browne, which was put on the market in 2007 and has since been offered for men and women. Browne, who is known with his own eponymous fashion brand for ankle-length men's suit pants or the use of the colors of the French flag and also works for Moncler, created for Brooks Brothers priced above the other range is moved fashion collections from quality materials, some of are produced in the United States. For the sub-brand Black Fleece, which is available in the Brooks Brothers stores and in the online store, Brooks Brothers operates in New York City and San Francisco 's own boutiques.

Others

  • Several Hollywood films have been equipped by the company
  • The official outfitter of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
  • The official outfitter of the American TV presenter Stephen Colbert
  • Official supplier of Kermit the Frog in " The Muppets " (2011)
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