The simple fact is that we had to do something. As Alex tried to articulate in his communications, we have to do something, or Iron Heart as a company will probably break and disappear, If that happens then nobody can sell Iron Heart. That may sound like an exaggeration, but I assure you it is not.

Alex and Haraki have been trying to fix our supply chain issues in various ways for years, none of the initiatives had relieved the resultant problems. The fact that we still have not delivered all of FW25 is one small indication of the issues we are having.

This has been an awful few weeks, as we work out what to do, how best to make the changes needed with minimum negative impact to our (pretentious word alert) ecosystem. I am proud of Alex because he has had the guts to do something that whilst personally devastating, had to be done. I am not sure that I would have had the balls to do it.

Which is one of the reasons Paula and I handed the reins to Alex when we did.

The last thing he needs at the moment is shit from people who think that they know more than him, he has enough on his plate as it is.

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Izzy Goolsby in the 1 of 1 Kids type III. Many props to @Alex for indulging her.....

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H has been dropping hints for ages that he really likes the deck that @Bailey made for the IHUK office. So he made him one of his own.

Dear Forum Members,

My name is Bernadette and I am Mike (aka “Filthy”) Ogurchak’s mom. I wanted to let you know how much it means to me that you thought so much about Mike. Thank you not only for your thoughts about him but also for the things you donated and/or purchased for the auction. Mike was almost obsessed with Iron Heart clothing and he only wore Iron Heart jeans and usually shirts every day. Every time someone would visit, he would go into his production about Iron Heart clothes and about the Forum. You brought so much joy to his life. I received the medical examiner’s report on Mike’s autopsy this week and as expected, he died from heart disease. The official cause was “coronary dilated myopathy” which means the muscles of his heart were so thick, it obscured the blood flow. Since many of my relatives had similar problems, it was definitely hereditary. Your donation to the American Heart Association will help in the research to find a cause and cure for this. Please know that I think about and pray for all of you daily and hope that you will carry on Mike’s great love of Iron Heart. Your comradery is so touching.

Affectionately,

Bernadette

Took them for a dip...

Paula got cold, so she nicked my jacket…..

Haraki's Iron Heart archive. Amazing, but still a work in progress.

6 x 4cm thick Sirloins Sous Viding before they hit the BBQ for searing later on today.......

Meringues - off to the oven....

Looked at the vid yesterday - will make soon

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When in Iceland…

Wear an epic sweater….

And if you look in the Japan visits thread in Trips and Travel, there will plenty of photos of visits to mills….

You can plan for the things you can plan for, but you cant plan for stuff you cant imagine happening. A whole batch of jeans gets ruined in the OD process, the wrong patch gets sewn onto a production run of jeans (lost in translation moment), the stitching on a quilted jacket needs to be completely redone, we try and set up a shirt production factory to get more control, and the first 2 shirts we make are so bad we have to do a recall and give up getting into production, a whole production run of jeans shrinks way more that we predicted, so they look nothing like the model they should have.....It's the gotchas that get you.......

Perhaps the thing that winds me up the most running this business (when I did, but it still winds me up now), is that we do our utmost to keep our customer base informed, we are extremely transparent and honest, and when we fuck up, we don't hide, we publicly admit it. But it still is not enough for some people.

Kuroki makes the 21oz. We have 6 dedicated looms, but getting more (and we desperately need more) has been comprehensively buggered by Levis realising that Japanese denim is actually rather good, so they are monopolising the Kuroki looms, oh and by the way, offshoring to Turkey, Mexico etc etc a few decades ago meant that Cone went tits up, so they cant buy decent denim in the US now. The sense of irony can not be over emphasised, and it is really hurting us.

The UHR was made in a mom and pop house factory, but the mom died earlier this year, so the future of UHR may be no future.

Various other mills make the other denims, but I tend not to be that bothered where the stuff is made as long as Haraki likes it, that's good enough for me