bunnyshop shopping fashion blog

Urban Outfitters' Big in Japan Collection

  

We want all of it. In particular: the Zumreed headphones, $60

  

This is how they describe the book: "The Golden Half is a cult camera from Japan, little and boxy and recently reissued. Life As A Golden Half is a book of images shot with the camera in question, wielded by 11 half-Japanese girls." Fair enough! Life As a Golden Half, $38

That book makes us want to buy the camera in question, which is pictured above. Key information: "The Golden Half Camera takes 35mm film and transforms each frame into 2 individual standard vertical format photos - one right next to the other, thus doubling the number of pictures your roll will take (ex: 48 pictures on a 24 exposure roll). Aside from increasing your shots, the miniature sized Golden Half camera allows your creative self to make diptychs and juxtapositions with the images you shoot (for example, taking a photo of a matchbox car right after taking a photo of ... a real car, so that they appear side by side and print together on one piece of photo paper)." So much information, but we couldn't think of a good way to condense the information. Until we buy the UO couch:

Which we are dying for but think looks unbelievably uncomfortable, we will content ourselves with the accessories. Golden Half camera, $60. (The couch is found here, $480)

We Totally Want: Jennifer Behr Spring 2009

We have been dying for a Jennifer Behr headband since we saw them on Gossip Girl last season. Now we want one even more.

See more at her website. NB if we were a maid of honor right now we feel like we would do more than our due duty by recommending the bridal collection.

The Accessory of the Summer (We've Been Told)

Of course now we can't find it, but the Times just named this headband the accessory of the summer. And $4.50! We are so sad we've already lost ours. At that price, however, replacements are not so annoying.

American Apparel headband, $4.50

How to Tie a Scarf: The Amazing Follow-Up

These amazing how-tos from Hermes were suggested by Cat—we meant to show them here and promptly forgot, which was a huge mistake, because they are so adorable. No? We still can't get a head scarf to stay on, but at least we feel like we can try.

Find part one here and part two here.

How to Tie a Scarf: Reader Mail

In today's Reader Mail:

Dear Bunnyshop,

This is ridiculously basic, but I am so bewildered: I keep seeing girls around me who have the ability to tie a scarf in such a way that it stays on their heads. I cannot do this! I so want to do the head-scarf summer thing. Please help!

Love,
T.

Argh! We have absolutely, positively, no idea. None at all. But we bet someone out there does. Bobby pins? Hairspray? Tape? We shrug. With aggravation. Teach us!

Above: the dandelion scarf from the super-fab designer Virginia Johnson, $98

Organic Cotton: The Round-Up

We are so torn by J. Brand's new organic cotton mini-line! ("Mini" as in two choices.) Why are they not skinny? Why? We don't, we just don't get it. We're shaking our head, and moving on. Luckily, we're totally into this idea of wide(ish)-legged jeans at the moment, but we don't know why you don't make your big eco move with your brand-signature style.

We love this dress. We wish it were a couple inches shorter, but otherwise, we're in organic-cotton love. Linda Loudermilk wrap dress, $280

(Not organic cotton, but in hemp:) Like the dress above, from Beklina, one of our new favorite sites. Hand-printed scarves, $45

C&C California have a load of organic-cotton tops (as we would suspect they might), of which this is our favorite. C&C California organic cotton dress, $110

This tote bag design is a little bit more ... hippy than we tend to go, but lately we've been watching a lot of Jesus Christ Superstar so maybe it's all good. And if we had a nickel for every time we've bee called a "free spirit," we'd be writing this from our mansion-house. Organic cotton tote, $29

Shopping (and Dressing) in Paris: Reader Mail

In today's Reader Mail:

Dear Bunny,

I see that you were recently in Paris - le sigh! I leave for Paris this weekend; it's my first time there. Since you manage to be sassy and fashion-y while being totally reasonable, I want to know: what are the must-pack items for gallery hopping, landmark visiting, marathon meals and general wandering about?

Lots of love,
C
Toronto

Oh, we just love the travel-y questions! First, we must say, our top top top recommendation for Paris will always be: Caves Saint-Gilles, a tapas restaurant in the Marais (our favorite neighborhood, btw.) It is amazing. It is so great we spent a birthday there, and our friend K. spoke Spanish to all the waiters, and it was amazing. We don't even mind using that word twice, it was that great.

We spent our time in Paris on the border of the 4th and the 11th, and we prefer this part of the city to any other. Maybe it's not the Louvre, but we love love love the Promenade Plantee, an elevated park tres pres de la Bastille—it's the prettiest thing in Paris, especially at this time of year. We were there a week and a half ago, and it was fucking snowing. But we've been there this time of year in years previous, and it's been perfect.

If you have any interest in contemporary art, we beg you not to miss the Sophie Calle show at the National Library.

Shopping wise, you have to hit Colette, Spree, and basically everywhere in the Marais—we are paper freaks so we adore Papier Plus, also in the Marais.

Anyway, this is clearly supposed to be about clothing. Three things hit us on this most recent trip:

1: We saw a million girls in swing jackets. Anthro swing set jacket, $118

2: High-waisted, wide-leg jeans. We didn't think anyone actually wore these, but we saw them all over the place and were totally jealous. 18th Amendment Colbert jeans, $218

3: Scarves. We could practice for a thousand million years and we will never be able to wrap a scarf like a French woman can. Topshop scarf, $30

Best Watches: Reader Mail

In today's Reader Mail!

Dear BS:

I've been thinking of making an investment in a good watch for some time now. I've searched to the corners of the Internet, but cannot find "the one" anywhere! Looking for something substantial with a leather band. Something fun and colorful; yet grown up. Any advice on where to look? Is a watch an obsolete investment piece anyway?

A. in Austin

So this took like nine million years longer than these usually take. We don't know anything about watches. This is true. We lose them, so we stopped buying them. Plus, we have a cell phone. We're wondering if cell phones were as bad for the watch industry as Netflix was for video stores. That said, we actually think not: They seem very responsible and go-getter-y. Two qualities we could use a bit more of.

This watch above is as close as we could find to that requested. Burberry Heritage Collection watch, $419.99

This reminds us a lot of the one above, but, like, not $400. Wenger Alpenrose, $59.95

We believe Lil Bunny recommended this watch a few weeks ago. We agree. Swiss Army Officer's watch, was $295, now $99.97

Our taste runs very much to the men's Swatch. This is the Wheeling, $155

We like the face of this one more than the band. Marc by Marc Jacobs round face watch, $250

American Apparel Discount Code!

Okay, so obviously we couldn't pass this up: courtesy of B.:

American Apparel Coupon Code:
TEENVOGUE08
Discount: 15% off expires March 31, 2008

Hurrah! We don't know why we're always so suspicious of discount codes, but we just tried this one (suspiciously), and it worked! Double hurrah! For some reason, every time we go away, we end up spending about $80 on things at American Apparel we can "wear on the plane." We are sure we are going to do this before we go to Miami this weekend. We are hoping we plan just the tiniest bit in advance to take advantage of this lovely discount code. In any case, here's what we'd buy.

We have been very happy with our AA pantyhose, and now it's 15% off. Opaque pantyhose, $14

Last night we dreamt we were on a roller derby team, and we were wearing shorts quite like this. Satin charmeuse roller shorts, $22

And this was our roller derby top. Satin charmeuse night jacket, $45

We love this dress even though it's not particularly flattering. Tri-blend pocket dress, $36

And we really just want a normal, stretchy tank top. This will do nicely. Cotton-Spandex camisole, $16

BS Hearts: Buying New Glasses

Saw this on the Sartorialist (so brilliant!) and then on the Fashion Spot. When we were in Utah our Nylon editor noticed that we wear our contacts morning ’til night, and we had to tell this whole story about how we left our glasses in China, etc etc, which didn't even matter because we'd bent the fuck out of them. These and all the other cute classes out there are somehow encouraging us to go back to the glasses shop, once all this Fashion Week madness is over. So many times when glasses are better! On airplanes, late at night ... okay, those are our best two. But still.