• BUNDLE INCLUDES: LEATHER DEFENDER, MATCHING HORWEEN LEATHER MR GRIPPER & SCHLEP PAD.
• FIT: 16″ MacBook Pro and smaller
• MATERIAL / TRIM: Horween Essex Rookery Leather
• INTERIOR MATERIAL: TexWax 5.6 ozBuffalo Plaidwaxed cotton canvas
• STRAP: Detachable 4000 lb Mil spec webbing with military grade metal hardware and Horween Essex Rookery Leather
• CLOSURE: x2 High Strength AustriAlpin quick release 1″ COBRAbuckles on outside pocket. Oversized, Distressed Brass YKK zippers with triple stitched Horween Essex Rookery Leather pull tabs
• HANDLE: Double Layered Horween Essex Rookery Leather
• TECH: Paddedcomputerpocket with Horween Leather snap closure and Military Gun Clip key ring
• TRAVEL: Rear 8″ wide Trolley Strap for securing to Luggage handle
• DIMENSIONS: 17″wide x 11″ tall x 3″ deep
• WEIGHT: 3.5 lb
• VOLUME: 9Liters

Some bags demand attention without ever asking for it.

Meet DEFY’s newest Defender: still the same no-nonsense form factor, now clad in Horweens rich, oil-tanned Rookery Leather x Buffalo Plaid Wax Canvas. Two American-made legends stitched together in Chicago with just enough quiet rage to make a statement in every room, whether its paneled in walnut or an old industrialloft filled with the golden haze of a Soho afternoon.

This bag is a contradiction in the best way: refined but feral. Polite, but packing heat. Horweens Rookery leather is supple and complex, aged in tradition, yet itching to get scuffed up. Itll darken, patina, and take on the scars of your travels like its collecting stories for your memoir. The Buffalo Plaid? A nod to the Americana that refuses to die. Itll soften over time and still look like it could chop wood for breakfast.

We burn through nearly an entire side of Horween to make one Defender. Thats not us bragging. Thats just how long it takes to make something worth carrying. Each one takes over three hours to build by hand, a deliberate, focused process that leaves no detail overlooked. Our leather artisans hand-skive and finish the edges the long way, because shortcuts arent part of our supply chain.

Front and center are $60 worth of AustriAlpin 1 Cobra Quick-Release buckles, the same trusted by Special Forces when theres no room for doubt. In places where failure isnt an option, these buckles hold fast. We chose them for your Defender for the same reason: because some things are too important to compromise.

Inside: closed-cell foam padding from a company so good at foam, were not allowed to mention them. Outside: a YKK oversized distressed brass zipper made in the USA that lets you access your gear with one hand and intimidate onlookers with the other.

We couldve made it faster. We couldve made it cheaper. We didnt.

DEFEND AGAINST FAST FASHION.PROUDLY HAND-CRAFTED IN CHICAGO.