Ministry of Sound has reunited with Alpha Industries and artist Chemical X on a run of just 35 bomber jackets, each signed and numbered. They are on sale only at Dover Street Market in London during Frieze Week, priced at £275. Frieze London and Frieze Masters run at Regent’s Park until 18 October.
The jackets pick up a piece of the club’s early identity. In 1991, Ministry of Sound commissioned Alpha Industries to make MA-1 bombers for its doormen, using the logo designed by Chemical X. They were never sold. Alpha Industries said: “If you were wearing one, you were part of the club, and because you couldn’t buy one, people wanted them even more.”
More than three decades later, the same three names have revisited that design rather than simply reprinting it. Each jacket carries bespoke embroidery by Chemical X, drawn from how the Ministry of Sound logo has changed over time, and is individually signed and numbered.
Caitlin McAllister, managing director at Ministry of Sound, called the release a full circle moment. “We’re incredibly excited to collaborate with Alpha Industries and Dover Street Market, two iconic names in their own right,” she said. “As we celebrate 35 years of Ministry of Sound, it felt important not just to look back at our history, but to create something new that becomes part of it.”
Chemical X described the 35 Years Later project as a chance to turn the jackets into “almost art pieces”. “Art doesn’t have to be something you hang on a wall; it can be something you wear,” he said. Alpha Industries said the collaboration stood out because “nobody had to invent a story”: Ministry really did customise Alpha jackets for staff, Chemical X really did design the original logo, and Dover Street Market was the right place to bring those existing connections back together.
The drop lands with Ministry of Sound (Anthology), a new book by author and creative director Simon Moore, published by Rizzoli New York on 20 October 2026 at £55. The 416 page hardcover, built from more than two years of research, covers the club’s first 35 years through first hand accounts from founders, DJs, dancers, designers and staff, plus previously unpublished photography and an archive of flyers, records, tickets and other ephemera. Contributors include Paul Oakenfold, David Morales, Moby, Pete Tong and Honey Dijon.
Moore has also designed T-shirts using material from the personal collections of founder Justin Berkmann and former resident DJ CJ Mackintosh. The graphics take in:
- A pre-opening business card bearing the club’s working title
- A flyer for a mid 1990s three city Japan tour that included Tokyo’s Liquid Room
- The operating manual for the Urei rotary mixer installed when Ministry first opened
Those T-shirts are available online and in store at both Ministry of Sound and Dover Street Market.
The jackets sit inside Ministry of Sound 35, a year long programme that opened with the biggest renovation of the club’s main room and a 35 Year World Tour, including the brand’s first return to Ibiza in more than a decade. That Ibiza date was a 528 takeover in September. The anniversary year is still running through the club’s autumn and winter programme. Full details of the Dover Street Market activation are on the 35 years of Ministry of Sound page.
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