Finally

Someone Should Stop This is on its way

Finally, good news: Someone Should Stop This will leave the printers this week. I’m told the books will arrive at my fulfillment company on Wednesday or Thursday, which means preorders will be shipped at the end of this week, early next week. If you haven’t already, you can preorder a copy at alecleach.com (you can also buy both books as a bundle, saving ~20%). Once the books have arrived, you can just order a copy and it’ll be shipped right away. Thank you for your patience.

We had a week-long delay as we needed to figure out some quality control issues with the printer. During the binding process, some pages in some books have become slightly misaligned, meaning there are a few instances where the text isn’t perfectly straight. I’m told that it’s hardly visible in most cases, but there may be a few copies that have pages where it’s more noticeable. This is sadly something that just happens — large scale projects run through industrial processes still have problems here and there. Like I said, I’m told that the problem is pretty minor, but I want to be transparent in case anyone gets a copy with a few pages that don’t look right.

I spent the tail end of last week in Copenhagen for fashion week. I did a Q+A at the fashion week’s event space with Christina Cacouris, who asked me about my motivation to write a book about climate change and the many contradictions that come with it, as well as my decision to continue self-publishing my work. Christina read through both of my books as prep despite jumping in to moderate the talk at the last minute. Thank you Christina — you can find out more about her work here.

I had a great time in Copenhagen. CPHFW have always been really supportive of my work, and I’m convinced that the market for men’s clothes is the best it has ever been. Another Aspect have an amazing line of Japanese jersey, Mfpen has had a huge glow up (and a very nice store), Berner Kuhl is looking fantastic while Sunflower continues to do the Sunflower thing of making very good menswear at a very good price.

Also: CP Company has released a book, Obstinate, telling the story of its founder Massimo Osti (who also founded Stone Island) as told by his wife. I’ve not read it yet but it looks much more interesting than the usual branded monograph. And congrats to David Hellqvist, who just released Blue Collar Modernism, a coffee table book looking at the enduring appeal of workwear.

Now that I’m back home, I’m continuing to lay the groundwork of the Ordinary Delusions podcast and preparing for fully launching Someone Should Stop This once the copies reach Berlin.

See you real soon.