Sydney teens are looking back to the ’90s to ‘live in the moment’
Audrey RichardsonSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.ShareAAAIn 15-year-old Olive Berlach’s Central Coast bedroom, knick-knacks from a distant era live strewn across every surface and wall. A Dirty Dancing vinyl, stacks of CDs, a Vogue magazine collection, jars of sea glass and shells, a Luke’s Diner coaster from Gilmore Girls, a lamp with coloured scarves sewn into it and posters of teen heartthrobs (young Johnny Depp and Australian singer Ruel).Olive wants to live like she’s “in the ’90s”. The front cover of her first self-published magazine, Olive, says it’s “for teens who want to live offline”.Inside, there’s a kaleidoscope of ideas and topics.
- ▪Audrey RichardsonSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.ShareAAAIn 15-year-old Olive Berlach’s Central Coast bedroom, knick-knacks from a distant era live strewn across every su
- ▪A Dirty Dancing vinyl, stacks of CDs, a Vogue magazine collection, jars of sea glass and shells, a Luke’s Diner coaster from Gilmore Girls, a lamp with coloured scarves sewn into it and posters of teen heartthrobs (young Johnny Depp and Aus
- ▪The front cover of her first self-published magazine, Olive, says it’s “for teens who want to live offline”.Inside, there’s a kaleidoscope of ideas and topics.
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