Reconnecting with one of my original favorites, Jac+Jack, to style, story, and showcase some of their AW21 pieces from their menswear collection.
I titled this editorial A Drop of Blue in the Crater because the current AW21 drop from Jac+Jack is an array of blue hues, and the location looks to be a natural crater. Nothing poetic or symbolic hiding in this title, it’s literal.
You can shop the current Menswear collection on Jac+Jack by clicking here.
RESORT CITY is all about finding the median between holiday and resort-wear whilst living and working in a city that is by the beach. Such a city provides new meaning to workwear and everyday style.
This editorial is all about the Resort City style, featuring Australian luxury label Commas, and accessories from Italian label Tod’s.
One of my favourite projects of the year. Where The Wild Flowers Are is an editorial featuring Kim Jones’ Dior Men’s Resort 2021 collection. Photographed by Joel Tozer, shot in the Snowy Mountains, and directed by yours truly.
And Jordan, the king of all wild flowers, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen. “And now,” cried Jordan, “let the wild rumpus start!”
INTRODUCING PRADA RE-NYLON: the fashion house’s cutting-edge move to total sustainability in their iconic fabric.
I am proud to stand alongside Prada as they put the concept of Timeless to the test. #PradaReNylon; created through a recycling and purification process of plastic waste collected from oceans, fishing nets, and other textile waste — something that can truly last forever.
Shop sustainably in Prada Sydney, as of right now.
It’s a Bally story. Set inside spacious green fields that glow under a golden sun. Viscerally highlighting Bally AW20’s warm colours that decadently, yet also delicately, partner with rich textures.
A Bally Story is constantly moving – never staying put for too long. It finds and creates moments inside a journey, and it also lets them go. It sounds sharp and cold, yet it feels dense and generous, much like what lies inside the Bally AW20 collection.
Featuring Violet Grace Atkinson, Jordan Turner, and Charles Alexander.
Featuring Violet Grace Atkinson, Jordan Turner, and Charles Alexander.
Have you ever wondered what you can see and learn about someone from their own space? Delicately taking in the treasures inside their walls. Including those inside the walls we build with our minds.
I’ve walked through that door before. Your senses instinctually take over, and it feels good. The lungs open, the skin tightens, and the brain evaluates the newness around you.
My nose was trying to find danger, but it instead found Baies.
I imagine spaces as if they are people, infused with shades of deeper meaning. In the glimpse of the world he occupies, you might find yourself imagining you exist there too.
In a world that is warm, and alive with his presence. Breathing in his atmosphere. The neat stack of New Yorker magazines, artworks painted beyond their canvas limits, and the books: non-fiction in grand scale, poetry, and an epic tale of codependence from characters with vulnerability pressed to their hearts.
Observing. His rust coloured linen that spreads across rich oak timber. A copy of The Great Believers placed next to a white reading chair in the far corner of the room. And half a coffee table, that bears no top, which reminds me of a Duchamp readymade.
There are the stories of his neighbours’ routines too. It feels like Grace Kelly in Hitchcock’s Rear Window, watching and listening in rapt attention to hear James Stewart’s discoveries of the day’s investigation.
His space indulges more than a conversation, and more than a moment to listen to. It’ll show you what you cannot see.
I look at my own space now, and its newly painted walls. I follow the stems of roses planted in the deco mouldings on my ceiling. I watch the shadows stretch across the bare floors and glow as the light outside pushes through clouds passing above. I look forward to mapping out the lighting patterns in each room.
This is part of the world I exist in now. And this is my new space. Currently empty of furniture, yet full of things that have never been.
Words by Jordan Turner
Wearing BELANCĒ
Shot by Oscar Leal
Originally an article for BELANCĒ’s journal.
Dior Summer 2020 is an ode to the history of the Maison, all the while being an interplay between past, present and future.
The value of the past, looking ahead from the present.
How Soon Is Now – not to be confused with The Smiths but also not to be exclusive from – follows the idea of this season’s collection reinterpreting Dior’s modern history, a new heritage.
Set against the exposed coastal rock of Sydney’s east, the location ties in the sculptural and architectural influences that were integral to Daniel Arsham’s collaboration.
Finding the shapes in the natural rock that paid homage to the incidental beauty of natural history, and the details in Dior’s Summer 2020.
“This collection explores anticipation and the elasticity of time, simultaneously looking back and forward,” described by representatives of Dior.
“History is not immutable: it is dynamic, changing and alive. This collection is a tribute to Dior, the one that’s familiar and the one still taking form.”
Kim Jones makes things with his movements that I, for the life of me, could never write with a pen.
A focus piece on the unintentional yet raw beauty within the way a Dior garment moves on man. Whether within the motion, or in emotion. Through a stride, through a phone call, through a longing gaze at art, or at someone.
Through the simplicity of dark city landscapes, and shadows on buildings, the element of Dior slices through your everyday views.
