Austin Reed was a British fashion retailer founded in 1900; the brand was acquired by Edinburgh Woollen Mill in 2016.

NKVD officer Vladimir Pravdin wore an Austin Reed suit he purchased from the Regent Street store, abandoning it in a Swiss hotel as he fled after his 1937 assassination of Ignace Reiss.

Austin Reed purchased retailer Country Casuals, rebranding it CC.

[citation needed] Austin Reed is mentioned as potential alternative employment by Captain Peacock on the British situation comedy, Are You Being Served.

[5] Cast member John Inman had worked at Austin Reed as a tie clerk in the early 1950s.