Author: JT

  • The Santa Fe boots are apart of RM Williams’ Authentics Collection and are made today, the same way they always have been, by hand in Adelaide, Australia. These classic boots feature unlined willow leather uppers, brass screwed leather sole, cuban heel and rodeo square toe with classic decorative stitching.

    While they’re made for hard work, they’re perfect for the human who wants something more than just a regular leather boot from a heritage Australian brand.

  • Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons mark the new generation of mood ring colours with Prada’s menswear FW22 collection. With bright dark hues creating a shiny midnight sky, a glassy jade leather jumpsuit, and a powerful teal coat that would seal any deal on the table: the collection marks one of Prada’s strongest to date.

    Explore the new generation of mood ring colours through the latest MR TURNER MAGAZINE editorial.











  • The thought process that formed this writing piece came to me this afternoon. I was sitting in a sunlit corner of my home, taking small, quiet bites from a bar of chocolate. In that moment of solitude, feeling content with life, I began to ask myself am I doing enough to take care of our Earth?

    I wonder if it has ever happened to you when you’ve found a state of euphoria. Maybe you’ve been swimming in the ocean or out walking while looking up at the sky and trees. Inside that sliver of peace and presence, you find yourself asking, how long will this last? How long will this part of our ocean remain plastic-free, or how long before we’ve cut those trees down? What a strange thing for us to have a sense of nostalgia for something that hasn’t directly happened yet.

    I am aware that I am asking many questions, for which you may not have answers right now. Allow me to provide you with mine. I will no longer be pulled from my small slices of utopia to be reminded of why our planet needs us.

    Where do I begin? How can I start? The questions are ringing. Start with something small that you do every day. Start a community compost, do better with your recycling, reduce your takeaway consumption. Or maybe, start with coffee.

    Working alongside Nespresso has opened my eyes to many things about the coffee industry we aren’t aware of, like the production of coffee itself. This knowledge has highlighted to me how important the work they are doing is as an industry leader.

    With research beginning in the early 2000s, Nespresso has woven a green infrastructure into their DNA: from the 24% reduction in carbon emissions since 2009, the availability of capsule recycling to 100% of Australian customers, Nespresso’s investment of over $860M into sustainability projects since 2014, to planting over 5.3 million trees across 9 countries and making every cup of Nespresso coffee, globally, carbon neutral by 2022.

    What spoke to me most was that Nespresso works closely with 122,000 farmers inside their AAA sustainability program. They aim to ensure high-quality and sustainable coffee sourcing and help protect the welfare of the farming communities and practices from the dangers of climate change and economic volatility. It paints a very human picture and pours a green and conscious cup of coffee. One that warms me with each sip and brings me closer to that slither of peace.

    When I choose Nespresso, I can see the environmentally friendly impact I’m making just by shopping consciously. I might tackle saying no to single-use plastics next or make sure I always have a reusable shopping bag. Whatever it is, I’ll be making even more of a difference.

    Nostalgia comes from a Greek word that means to return home. If we all mastered one habit to help our planet, it’d be easier to master another and another. We can make sure that Earth’s green gardens and growing trees sing so that the bees can once again tell the flowers to bloom as they once did. 

    We can make sure that there will always be something to return home to. 

    What will you start with? 

    In partnership with Nespresso.

     

  • An exploration of the night and its accompanying nocturnal moods with PRADA FW21.

    For the nights where love and lust float through the air. It becomes tangible, like something you can pick up and eat. It tastes sweet and tart and easy.

    For the nights where confidence flows through our veins. He occupies a world where he knows what to dress and for what occasion. And it was always with a Prada garment.

    For the nights of fantasy. A brown boy. A mother’s son. Creating from his heart. Looking at the world from the wrong end of a telescope. It was nonsense and beauty and he liked it that way.

     

  • The latest collection drop from the iconic Australian Activewear label, PE Nation Menswear.

    Catch my full digital edit below, and scroll to the bottom to shop my looks.

     

    Look One, Street Style
    PE Nation Menswear Extension LS Top (in white) layered underneath PE Nation Menswear Extension Tee (in sage), over the PE Nation Menswear Fortitude Short (in black).

    Look Two, Blue Hues
    PE Nation Menswear Intensify Hoodie (in Victoria Blue), layered underneath PE Nation Menswear Momentum Puffer Jacket (in Sulphur), over the PE Nation Menswear Fortitude Short (in black).

  • When I was growing up, I had a gigantic collection of Barbie and Bratz dolls that were the envy of my friends. I was into wearing dresses, turning a turtleneck or skivvy into a wig, and walking around the house in my Grandmother’s and Mother’s shoes. I can still remember the smell of my Mum’s perfume that lingered on the fabric of a scarf I used to tie around my head to create long hair.

    My Elementary school accepted me with open arms. Teachers, parents and friends in my class understood that this was simply who I am. My Mother, Grandmother and Sister let me run free. It was at this time that I began to explore more of what was so fascinating to me.

    Looking back on it now, I realise how lucky I was to have had so much acceptance.

    Glamorous people and objects drove my creativity. I wanted to be a fashion designer when I turned 6. Sophistication, elegance and beauty were my kryptonite. Sailor Moon was my favourite TV show, and I had to be Posh Spice when playing pretends with friends. I even started sketching wedding dresses outside wedding shops and created my own magazine to showcase and write critiques on my own designs.

    When I arrived at secondary school, the game changed. I was attending an all-boys private school, and masculinity was the aim of the game. I started hiding my interests, praying no one would ever find out about that person who I used to be and definitely no longer was. I’m a man now; I do boy things.

    But everyone knows the truth always comes out.

    This progresses into a story that is like so many others, some more fortunate and some worse. Yet they all follow the same plot: knowing you’re different, being targeted for it, and paving the way for yourself in your world until you find others like you.

    Why do people target those who are different? Why are we made to feel less than when we are nothing less than exceptional. We are the people who push boundaries and swim upstream. We constantly test what’s tolerable and take it a little further. We are the ones making sure the future generations of us do better than we have done.

    I always wonder what my creativity would be like had there been no outside influence. What if no one thought a boy playing with dolls was wrong? What if dressing up and experimenting with expression had no boundaries? That fashion and art were genderless, or the concept that anybody could be anyone and that they could do anything was a liveable truth. What if there was no idea of what was or what is normal?

    What if the birds sang love and the leaves on trees listened? What if the wind could pick up its song and carry it like pollen? What if people listened to its sound and felt its message?

    What if we could all just be?

    I imagine it would be a Utopia.

    I’ll live with the truth to these questions as unanswered. I wonder if I am poorer for having lost an explanation. Maybe I am richer for having gained a mystery.

    This editorial is an exploration into the idea of what is considered normal and why we feel pressured to be it. Written and directed by Jordan Turner of MR TURNER.

    I styled this editorial with Wynn Hamlyn‘s Resort 2022 collection. Although the Macrame dress and top is a unique and beautiful garment on its own, it has a symbolic representation of a barrier or cage in I don’t really talk about it (but I probably should). It is to communicate the idea that there is something holding one back, yet at the same time, there is a sentimental longing or affection for one’s true self.