2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald
🔮 After the final school bell rang, groups of teenagers would make the weekly pilgrimage to their local shopping centre and walk around for hours, gossiping as they browsed through shops that housed treasures they couldn’t yet afford.
“They became a part of everyday life,” says Sophie Holt, Oroton creative director, of the place shopping centres have within the broader context of Australian fashion history.
“For many people, it was the main place where they first saw fashion. assertive