Motor City
Our Story
BRAKEUP was born in aDetroit warehouse off Michigan Avenue with one obsession — to rework the city itself into clothing. We pull vintage denim, deadstock tees and industrial hardware off the floor and push them back through the hands of painters, printers and stitchers who treat every garment like a one-of-one.
A splash of paint is never an accident here. It's the signature. Every crossbody strap is cut from seatbelt webbing, every laptop sleeve finished with a strip of hazard tape. BRAKEUP is luxury made the way Detroit makes everything — loud, honest and a little banged up.
Reworked
Vintage and deadstock garments hand-painted and patched into one-of-one pieces you can't reorder.
Industrial
Seatbelt webbing, hazard tape and hardware-store hardware reimagined as luxury bag architecture.
Made Here
Cut, printed and finished under one roof in Detroit by people whose names are on the tag.