Brain Dead Releases 3rd Collaboration With Long Time Partner Slam Jam
We’re happy to announce the release of the third collaborative collection with our legendary friends over at Slam Jam. Founded in Italy by Luca Benini in 1989, Slam Jam has firmly established themselves as a globally recognized institution by representing urban subcultures, drawing upon art, music, and clubbing as their inspiration. What began as an endeavor to distribute highly sought after products throughout Europe has turned into a full-stack, go-to-market creative agency for the world’s leading streetwear brands. Brain Dead and Slam Jam have been longtime collaborators, so it only made sense to reach across eachother’s desks yet again to bring you a new range of products for Summer ‘21, including three tees, shorts, a polo, glassware, tea towels and a new rendition of our fan favorite rug. This collection retails for $15-$180 and will be available on Tuesday, July 27th via wearebraindead.com, Brain Dead Studios Fairfax, Brain Dead Studios Milan, Brain Dead Studios Harajuku as well as select Dover Street Markets.
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Horfee Suit and Chained Forever Ring
We're stoked to announce some new dressy styles for your Summer soirees/court appearances. Our new Horfee suit features artwork by, you guessed it, Antwan Horfee. Antwan first garnered attention in Paris's independent art scene. After making his name as a graffiti writer, he made a foray into the gallery scene. His seamless blending of grit and vibrant color fit perfectly into the Brain Dead universe. Also, we already made the Horfee Shirt so... Also releasing with the suit is our newest installment of our ongoing relationship with Jason Le Compte. Hailing from Venice Beach, JLC has achieved "unmistakeable" status through his handmade jewelry that is both modern and respects tradition. Both new styles are available now on our webstore!
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Faye Webster Collection + Hats and Incense
Brain Dead has partnered with indie recording artist Faye Webster on an exclusive capsule in conjunction with the release of her latest album I Know I’m Funny Haha. The 23-year-old Atlanta based singer began her steady rise to indie stardom in 2013 after her self-released debut album Run and Tell garnered attention and praise. I Know I’m Funny Haha, released on Webster’s recent birthday, marks Webster’s fourth album in that time and displays a further mastery of her signature, intimate home recording process and emotionally vulnerable lyricism. With Webster being an avid photographer and yo-yo enthusiast, this collection features a disposable camera, a metallic yo-yo, and exclusive t-shirt retailing from $25-$54. To celebrate the release, Faye Webster will also be hosting her own show on Brain Dead’s NTS Radio channel on Sunday, July 11th from 12-1 PM PT. The I Know I’m Funny Haha capsule will be available Saturday, July 10th at Brain Dead Studios Fairfax and Tuesday at 10 AM PST online at wearebraindead.com. This week we are also excited to release our Running Man Buckets as well as restock the ever-popular Agairc Incense collaboration, all of which will be available at 10AM PT online via wearebraindead.com and as well as in-store at Brain Dead Milan and Brain Dead Harajuku.
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Late Summer Drop 3 Collection
We are thrilled to announce the third drop of our Later Summer collection.The campaign was shot in a very special location, “Pescetrullo” a project developed and designed by Gaetano Pesce. The place is represented by colorful irregular shaped houses, surrounded by fig, almond and olive trees. Keeping in the Brain Dead tradition, we’ve sourced graphics from our close network of independent artists. Artists being featured in this collection include our friends Jupes, Gassius, and Antwan Horfee. This delivery is playful to say the least. Our fabric plays this season, such as engineered ribbing mixed with all over patterns, create moments of nostalgic excitement. Our application plays this season, such as embroidery mixed with printing, are compelling not only to the eyes, but to the hands as well. From peached cotton to piques, our choice of fabric is evocative of the mid 90’s retro athleticism. Our new mesh football shirts are a nod to classic varsity iconography while our new raglan shirts usher in the dreamy nostalgia found in such movies as Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Along with these classics, we have also created the world’s finest headwear in the form of our new bandana hat.
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Brain Dead Partners With Turnstile On Exclusive Merch
Brain Dead has partnered with notorious punk band Turnstile for the release of their latest film Turnstile Love Connection. Formed in the heart of Baltimore’s hardcore punk scene in 2010, Turnstile has developed their style of youthful, hardcore punk over the course of the last decade.The collection includes two t-shirts, a crewneck sweatshirt, shorts, a bucket hat, totebag, and Nalgene water bottle. The collection will be available Saturday, June 26th via Brain Dead Studios Fairfax and Tuesday, June 29th at 10AM PT online via wearebraindead.com and as well as in-store at Brain Dead Milan and Brain Dead Harajuku.
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Brain Dead x Flash Art Magazine
Brain Dead has teamed up with renowned Italian contemporary art magazine Flash Art for the release of their Summer ‘21 edition. Founded in 1967, Flash Art has cemented themselves as a seminal global publication, driving the conversation surrounding the world of contemporary art for well over five decades. Brain Dead has partnered with Flash Art on a two page spread in their latest edition ‘Cultural Apocalypses,’ taking a stark look at the current global cultural apocalypse as human’s time on this planet comes to it’s inevitable end. To accompany the release of ‘Cultural Apocalypses’ Brain Dead has designed a custom T-Shirt featuring art from the spread. Are we simply going through the motions, or is there categorical change afoot? Warning: answers may vary....
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California Climbing Designs and Guapdad T-Shirt
Climbing is deeply engrained into the DNA of Brain Dead. It’s a simple sport. See that big thing? Get to the top of it. No opponents except the cartoon devil on your shoulder telling you to quit while still you can. We wanted to create a line that encouraged climbing maniacs, casual and advanced, to keep pushing forward. This collection includes shorts, t-shirts, climbing holds, and a hat. Also included in today's release is our cooperative t-shirt with Guapdad 4000.
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Brain Dead is thrilled to announce their collaboration with Goshi on a rendition of their renowned exfoliating towel. Produced in Gunma, Japan, a region whose rich history in textile manufacturing goes back thousands of years, this 100% recyclable nylon towel provides what is the human version of a buff and polish. Easy to use with your go-to shower soap, Goshi prides themselves on a modern solution to full body exfoliation that will make your skin as soft as ever. To celebrate this activation, Brain Dead and Goshi have partnered with F2000 Racer Tommy Cadwalader for his recent slate of races as well as a speedy digital short. With Tommy’s goal being to race F1 in the future, we were incredibly excited to support him and have the GOSHIBRAIN logo proudly displayed on his car. The collection will retail for $15 and be available on Tuesday June 8th at 10 AM PST via wearebraindead.com, Brain Dead Studios Fairfax, Milan and Harajuku as well as goshi.com select retail partners.
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Devendra Banhart
Brain Dead has tapped Los Angeles, CA based musician and artist Devendra Banhart for a new line of home goods. Banhart, who spent his formative years between Venezuela and Southern California has made a multifaceted career as both a musician and a visual artist. With an illustrious music career spanning the last two decades, Banhart has maintained a tangential passion for the visual arts, earning a Grammy nominee for his 2010 artwork and packaging on his album What Will We Be. Banhart has shown in some of the world’s premiere galleries, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Art Basel Contemporary Art Fair Miami, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and most recently at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles. We are excited to collaborate with Banhart on a series of homegoods, a Japanese made rug and ceramic cups, plates, and incense holders produced locally by Long Beach, CA based EKUA Ceramics. The portraits featured throughout the collection were done during the early weeks of the pandemic. A batch of Devendra Banhart vinyl records featuring his hand drawn cover illustrations will also be available exclusively via Brain Dead Studios Fairfax. “The portraits in this series began at the beginning of lockdown, during hours and hours of intimate conversations with my closest friends, conversations that would traverse the entire emotional spectrum within a few moments, early days of wild waves that are still coming and going. I was especially thrilled to be collaborating on homewares or better said, utilitarian art objects whose use also includes the simple comfort of something tactile, something one can hold, something that changes as time and touch embed it with new characteristics, sometimes adding something new to your home can make your home feel new …I’ve been admiring Brain Dead’s ever evolving interdisciplinary universe for some time now…. Admiring how they’ve managed to strike that rare balance between an immediately recognizable identity and certain kind of fluidity that makes their myriad of collaborations so natural, considerate, and always interesting.” - Devendra Banhart This collection will be available on June 1st at 10AM PT via wearebraindead.com, Brain Dead Studios Fairfax, Brain Dead Studios Milan, Brain Dead Studios Harajuku as well as select Dover Street Markets.
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Brand New Eyewear For Your Peepers!
The sun is shining... are you protected? We are back with a brand new run of our Post Modern Primitive Eye Protection just in time for Summer. Crafted from our sustainably sourced, biodegradable acetate and structured stainless steel core, these glasses include optical quality lenses with 100% UV protection. We’re pleased to announce that this drop features new iterations of the fan favorite Tanis, Elias, and Kopelmans. Not ones to stick to our guns, this year we’ve added three new silhouettes to the mix. The Stauntons offer square-frame purists our take on the timeless shape, the Nattos are the perfect frame to mask any and all looks (whatever their intention), and the Mutants invite us to look through the eyes of a fly on the wall. These frames round out this year’s eyewear offering in distinct fashion, with all six contributing to the greater story of our eyewear program. With almost enough shapes to play Tetris, we hope this release offers the opportunity for facial structures big, narrow, wide and small to receive the modern yet primitive eye protection they’ve been seeking. Every style in the collection will retail for $175 and be available via wearbraindead.com, Brain Dead Studios Fairfax, Brain Dead Studios Harajuku, Brain Dead Studios Milan as well as all Dover Street Market locations and select retail partners worldwide.
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Summer Drop 2 Collection
We are thrilled to announce the second drop of our Spring collection. Featuring everything from swimsuits to pajama sets, this array of products has everything one would need to carry them through the hot days and cool nights that Summer has in store. Shot in New York, this collection heavily emphasizes both physical and visual texture, which one can feel bursting through their screens via our wookie look-alikes. This drop features new iterations of your favorite Brain Dead products like our heavyweight tees and carpenter pants as well as a slew of new designs including our reverse fleece sweats and paneled striped shirts. Drop 2 also marks our first ever women’s line, including both active and casual wear for the badass women with which the world is run. Brain Dead Drop 2 Spring collection will range in price from $54-$185 and be available for sale on wearebraindead.com, Brain Dead Studios Fairfax, Brain Dead Studios Harajuku, all Dover Street Market locations, and in every retail partner.
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Brain Dead Studios Presents: The New Flesh
BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS is an experiential space collaboratively curated by the Brain Dead family to share our design, creation and inspiration. Located at the historic Silent Movie Theater site in Los Angeles, the Studios feature a green room, cafe, and movie theater. The green room showcases the latest Brain Dead merch drops, alongside apparel exclusive to the Studios. Everything on site is sourced and created with thought, from our handpicked record collection to our collabs with local growers and artisans. The patio restaurant SLAMMERS serves coffee all-day, as well as lunch and dinner. Our culinary director selects local, seasonally sourced foods to create a unique menu of cafe cuisine inspired by recipes from around the globe. The movie theater remains true to its origins as an arthouse repertory cinema. Each month we present an all-inclusive blend of films ranging from the silent era to the contemporary, orchestrated around the nuances of a specific theme.
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Kerbi Stained Glass Clock and More!
We're delighted to bring you new Spring/Summer 2021 styles for your home and your dome. The main attraction of today's release is the newest iteration of our running cooperative effort with renowned stained glass wizard, Kerbi Urbanowski, that takes the form of a Logo Head clock. Each clock's faceplate has it's own unique composition and color palette, making them all one of a kind. If being on time is something you care about, this is the product for you. Other products from this release include beanies, rugs, and embroidered face masks. Don't miss out on this opportunity to invite Brain Dead into your domicile. We're great guests and we rarely steal.
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Brain Dead and Gotcha are ecstatic to announce our first surf inspired collection. Founded by the late great Michael Tomson, Gotcha was once the biggest surf brand in the world. Producing pieces as innovative as they were prolific, Gotcha’s influence was felt from your locals' parking lot to high-fashion runways the world over. These items include everything from their inimitable use of neon, iconic hand print graphics and (most especially) the Gotcha Shark, which is a facet of both the co-branded logo as well as the above digital short, which follows a shark aptly named ‘Skinny Mike’ as he embarks on a treacherous virtual hacking mission for boatloads of cash. Written/Directed: Steve Smith (@sleevesmith) Puppets/Fabrication: Tom Burns (@cybakilla) Travis Taylor (@travis_g_taylor) Alex McMillan (@alxmcmiln) Steve Smith Starring: Dylan Dawson (@dyldaws) Budd Diaz (@buddanthonydiaz) Music: Jerry Paper (@Jerrypaperreality) Sound Design: Eugenio Battaglia (@eugeniobattaglia) Color: Travis Yarrington (@tab_tabitha_) DP: Dan Dirito (@dandirito) Shot at Working Class Film in Hamtramck, MI(@workingclassfilm)
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Reebok and Brain Dead present: ‘Zigman v.s. The Spacecraft’
“Roger Jones must save the city from its various evils. With the help from a ship called My Friend, he is given a great power to do so.” Brain Dead and Reebok are delighted to announce their 3rd collaboration with the release of the Zig Kinetica II. This technology-packed silhouette has provided us the largest canvas with which to channel our creativity without sacrificing any performance attributes. Featuring Reebok’s proprietary Floatride Fuel cushioning wrapped in a Zig Energy Shell, the Zig Kinetica II’s return energy to the user with each stride they take. These shoes are heavily inspired by Japanese Kaiju Vinyl Toys. This is evident from the speckled, wavy overlays and the midsole gradient. This campaign follows the story of ‘Zig Man’, a Sentai style superhero who fights to both save his city from monsters as well as himself from the mundanity of his existence. Whether you’re taking on outside invaders in an effort to save humanity or fighting the urge to eat that 3rd slice of pizza, these shoes are ready for whatever your next battle has in store.
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Brain Dead x Mindforce/Dead Heat Collection
To celebrate the reissue of Mindforce and Dead Heat’s split 12” we partnered up with Triple B to create a special t-shirt. The t-shirt is available exclusively at Brain Dead Studios Fairfax and on our website wearebraindead.com. In addition to the t-shirt, we created a limited edition alternative screen printed vinyl cover for the split (limited to 50 copies) available only in store at Brain Dead Studios Fairfax in Los Angeles, CA.
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Brain Dead presents Mutant Sequencer
To accompany the release of Volume 1, we produced a collection inspired by the work of the producing artists. Its products will be made available at wearebraindead.com, Brain Dead Studios Fairfax, Brain Dead Milano, Dover Street Market Los Angeles, Dover Street Market New York, Dover Street Market Ginza and Dover Street Market London.
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Brain Dead x ROA Hiking Neal
Today, Roa Hiking and Brain Dead reveal their Summer ‘21 collaboration. The collaboration takes the form of an original Neal silhouette, one of ROA’s iconic models, in a gel-injected cavallino upper. To give us a first glance of the shoe Ami Evelyn concocted a magical campaign featuring a fabulous IT girl, a cave giant and a swamp troll touching upon both the shoe’s details and angles. The Roa x Brain Dead Neal features: The upper is composed of 90% Calf Leather and 10% Polyester that will give you a straight feeling of pony hair. - ROA logo on Black Rubber overlays toe box. - Brain Dead logo in a green gel in the back of the shoe. - Solid black Eva midsole seated atop black rubber Vibram outsole. Credits: Art direction by Emi Evelyn Hughes @thegoblinmilk
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Hard/Softwear Carpenter Pants + Agaric Fly Incense + Spring 21 Fleece
Our Washed Hard/software carpenter pant is coming to you in a whole new marble dye together with a restock of our washed black and natural carpenters. Thanks to its velcro waist fastening system our carpenter pant is easy to fit, unmistakably Brain Dead. Our newest wash makes it the most comfortable pant we ever made. Along with the carpenters we're now releasing our drop 1 new military pants and our fleece from Spring collection. And as for the cherry on top, we're delighted to release our brand new Agaric Fly Incense with notes of ozone, tree moss, and passionfruit. Because all the new clothes are worthless if your room stinks!
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Off Planet Work Wear Denim
Brain Dead Off Planet Work Wear Denim ! Today we are proud to introduce our first ever denim collection exclusively made in the USA. As American as baseball and apple pie. We created this pant in pursuit of the perfect five pocket denim that you can call your favorite pair of straight leg jeans. Now available in medium wash, rinsed black, and light indigo with embroidery. We pair this denim collection with new four new beanies styles: black/lemon, frosted purple, navy/gold/evergreen, and white/navy/red. Guaranteed to keep your dome piece snug as a bug in a rug.
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Our Spring Homegoods Delivery is here!
At Brain Dead, we strive to provide you with not only clothes but also the best collection of items to bring the Brain Dead lifestyle into your living space. We believe that clothing is how you express yourself to the world and homewares are how you express yourself to yourself! We are excited to release our newest collection of homegoods for you to invite into your dojo. This collection consists of nalgene, bandanas, pins, keychains, coffee, dog toys, and more! Available 03/02/21 at 10:00 AM PST on wearebraindead.com .
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SS21 Drop 1
Drop 1 of Brain Dead’s Spring collection seeks to explore otherworldly dimensional levels and (as always) stamp out reality. The collection was shot in the ultimate spatial location, invaded with huge photobioreactors that perfectly embody the innovation seen throughout the product. This collection features utilitarian silhouettes infused with in non-conventional details such as fabric paneling. From the artistic embroideries with 3D prints to the free-flowing organic paneling and layering of fabrics to create depth and subtleties, this collection is meant to be worn throughout all walks of life.
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A.P.C. + Brain Dead Studios Totes + Face Protection Garment
How to carry your goods around... All the proceeds from our A.P.C. Unity tote will be donated to 100% of profits will go towards New Orleans, LA based youth music organization The Roots Of Music. The Roots of Music empowers the youth of New Orleans by providing education on the rich musical history of their city. Programming includes music theory, instrumental instruction and performance education for children ages 9-14 from low-income families. This support will help The Roots of Music to continue to employ their all-star music instruction team, comprised of local performing musicians and culture bearers who currently cannot perform to earn a living. Learn more about The Roots of Music here.
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Bikini Kill in support of Peace Sister
Today Brain Dead and Bikini Kill announce the band’s first collaborative merch in their storied thirty year history. All profits from the shirt will go towards Peace Sisters, an organization of which BIKINI KILL frontwoman and 90’s feminist icon Kathleen Hanna sits on the board. Peace Sisters was founded by Tina Kampor, who moved from Togo to California in 2003. Playing a direct role in the support and continuity of education for 450 Tongan school girls, today Peace Sisters’ goals aligns with the message found in BIKINI KILL’s songs of the 90’s, proving that the deserving cause of female empowerment is as culturally relevant today as it was three decades ago.
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Brain Dead x Magic: The Gathering will be made available on the web, in store as well as at our Dover Street Market affiliates on December 8th, 2020.
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