The team that led the iconic teen mag in the 90s has regrouped to provide a new publication for
Women who have grown up with them
Head to the
Facebook page of Tonic Magazine, the new online women’s publication aimed at women over 45 that launched last week, and one of the first things you notice is a black and white header picture of Alison Brahe.
If you are an
Australian woman around the age of 45, you almost certainly know exactly who Alison Brahe is. The blonde, sunny beauty appeared on the cover of Dolly dozens of times in the early 1990s. She was the pinup girl of mainstream white Australian style in that era, a sort of Elle-Macpherson-next-door whose wholesome good looks seemed almost attainable if you went for enough runs on the beach and faithfully re-applied your apricot Body Shop lip balm. Even today she still invites delighted comments and cries of recognition from the women who once Blu-tac’d her to their Laura Ashley-wallpapered bedroom walls.