Brain Dead Puts Aki Yamamoto's Hand-Drawn Art on Shirts in Its FW26 Drop 2

Brain Dead's second Fall/Winter 2026 drop went out on Friday, and on Saturday the label pulled two parts of it to the front of its Instagram: a set in a new Terrain camo in the early afternoon, then, a couple of hours later, the pieces drawn by the artist Aki Yamamoto, "now online and in stores."

There are seven Aki Yamamoto pieces, each tagged "Artwork by Aki Yamamoto" on Brain Dead's shop. The loudest is the Running Logo Button Up Shirt, $225: a brown micro-plaid shirt with an oversized hand-drawn take on Brain Dead's running logo across the front, a face in crayon reds, blues and greens. The Striped Button Up Shirt, $245, scatters smaller drawings over a green stripe, and the same loose sketches run down the legs of the navy Utility Pant, $245, in gridded nylon taslan.

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The rest are a heavyweight French terry hoodie in wine with a big screen-printed patch on the chest, finished with a raw edge, at $225; a garment-dyed Starswept T-shirt at $60; a Running Logo long-sleeve tee at $70; and, for women, a striped baby tee with an embroidered flame at $85. By Saturday afternoon the long-sleeve tee was down to its last size, XL.

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The piece Yamamoto posted from a current show is ink and screen tone on paper. That show, with the artist AUTOMOAI, Carcinisation / The Shape of Becoming, has been up at candlecafe12 in Kitazawa, Tokyo, since October 23, and it closes on the same Saturday Brain Dead put the collection up front.

The Terrain camo set

The camo is a Brain Dead Equipment set in a custom terrain camo print of tan-brown, pale sage and olive. The Double Zip Pullover Smock, $295, is a hooded ripstop pullover with a mesh lining, a double-zip high neck, raglan sleeves, a kangaroo pocket, zip pockets under front and back flaps and a bungee hem. The matching Nylon Utility Pant is $245, a Pleated Toggle Wrap Skirt in a translucent micro ripstop is $225, and a nylon bandana hat with a contrast brim is $80.

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The rest of Drop 2

Brain Dead's own note on the drop lists heavy fleece pullovers, packable cargo jackets, micro ripstop smocks and utility pants for the Equipment line, abstract cartoon prints by Leomi Sadler, denim flocked in felt, and hand-applied tie dyes. Across the shop's listings it runs from $60 tees to the $550 Vertical Realm Puffer Jacket, and two climbing shoes made with adidas 5.10 went out the same day.

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Yamamoto's pieces aren't priced as specials: the $225 Running Logo shirt costs the same as Brain Dead's own Waffle Button Front Shirt in this drop, and the cheapest way in is a $60 tee. Leomi Sadler's pieces run higher, up to $325 for her Comic button-up, but either way the drop folds two outside artists into the main line rather than saving them for one headline collaboration.

Next for the label is CyberCon in Los Angeles from Tuesday, November 10, then Drop 3 on Friday, November 20, which newsletter subscribers get a week early, on November 13. Brain Dead hasn't said whether the Aki Yamamoto pieces will be restocked.