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Brain Dead

Brain Dead at a glance

Quality

Price

$$

Mid-range labels average 6.9

Value

6.0Better value than 43% of labels

Typical US prices

tees $54-75, hoodies $180-200, outerwear $220-495

Brain Dead is an American streetwear core label best known for art-school graphic streetwear — quality 6/10, leaning very trend-forward, very expressive and very casual.

Streetwear CoreUnited StatesMen & WomenStreetwear

Scores

Design

8 of 10

Reputation

7 of 10

Style

Quality 6 — joint 8th of 22 streetwear brands (average 6.3). Value 6.0 — joint 198th of 370 for quality against price; not on the Value Frontier.

Scores last reviewed July 6, 2026 · Sources: Brain Dead official site (opens in a new tab), Hypebeast (opens in a new tab), opumo.com (opens in a new tab) · How we score

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