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Donald Brooks, a costume designer for Broadway, television and film whose clients included Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Grace and Barbra Streisand, died August 1 in Stony Brook, New York. He was 77.

Brooks was the costume designer for dozens of Broadway plays, films and television movies in the 1960s and 1970s, including the plays "Barefoot In the Park" and "On a Clear Day You can See Forever" and the films "Star!" (1968) and "Darling Lili" (1970), both starring Julie Andrews. He was nominated for Oscars for both those films as well as for "The Cardinal" in 1963.

Brooks won an Emmy for designing "The Letter," an ABC television movie, in 1982 and was nominated for designing for Claudette Colbert in the 1987 NBC movie "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles."

His lone Tony nomination was for his first Broadway show, Richard Rodgers' "No Strings," in 1962.

Brooks was a founding member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He won the Coty American Fashion Award three times in the 1950s and 1960s, and won the Parsons Medal for Distinguished Achievement in 1974.