bunnyshop shopping fashion blog

Shepard Fairey for Saks

So Shepard Fairey's "graphic identity," we believe it's called, showed up in Saks this week—online, in catalogues, and clearly on their bags—and we're so freaked out that we've seen almost entirely negative press about it. We love it. It's totally unique. What, the world needs another "big brown bag" from Bloomingdales? Pass, thank you. In fact, we think every store should turn over their bags to an artist—like Selfridges does with Barbara Kruger. Special things! We hate that there are so few special things in the name of brand identity. We'd like our brand's identity to be interesting.

Pop Ink Soap: Bunnyshop Hearts

Pretty! We swore yesterday we could hear the sound of singing birds. Spring: we require it, stat.

Pop Ink Bird Bath soap, $24

Our Favorite Packaging in Ages, From Satu

This is just our favorite packaging we have seen in ages.

Above: Satu body butter in gerbera daisy (top) and "vanilla infusion" (above), $28

And we think this may be the prettiest perfume bottle ever. No? Er, actually, we don't love that black top, but the design on the glass is beautiful.

Above: Satu eau de parfum in "fields of freesia" and again with the vanilla infusion, $48

Bunnyshop Hearts: Bella Muse

Because we are now obsessed with the fact that once again we are going to space on remembering to sell holiday cards, a BS[H] from the "Answer Guy":

"When I don't feel like making cards myself: Bella Muse."

Er, imagine that with a border. White card, white background, border problems. Holiday Cheer cards, six for $20

We Forgot This Yesterday

As we say, we forgot this from our Mexican packaging extravaganza. If an "extravaganza" can consist of eight pictures. We really sort of half-assed that, there. However, nine is better than eight, unless you're talking about how many chocolate PopTarts we ate today. In which case nine is nine too many.

Note the globally-recognized gold "caffeine free" tip-off.

Coca-Cola Light: ¡Muy refrescando!

The Small Glories Of Packaging From Mexico

So at one point, we were quite set on setting up a second blog, but this one would be just about different packaging from around the world. You can see we haven't exactly gotten around to it, and since we had that idea about a year ago, it's unlikely we're going to any time soon. At this point, it seemed reasonable to just sort of integrate it here. Above, those are little mirrors. We didn't buy one. We would apparently prefer using semi-reflective bus windows to apply our make-up. Tss.

The dress below is Mint's Mayan embroidered sundress.

It's a little bit of a kick-off to our little Mexico-centric packaging smorgasbord (with, this time, the technically successful use of the photo album), straight outta Playa Del Carmen. Our favorite thing about "Playa" was the women our mom's age drinking pina coladas at nine in the morning, and then shouting things across the street to each other. Things like, "You look like such a native!" A native of Westchester, this is, in her J. Crew shorts. Seriously. But they weren't being sarcastic. Then there were the women who collectively accused the American ticket agent of neglecting to return their boarding passes, which she had, and which they eventually recognized. "Good girl," one said to the middle-aged ticket rep. Honestly honestly honestly, we're supporting an amendment in which patronizing bitches don't get passports.

Er, where were we? Photo album. Yes.

Bath and Body Works Redux

We know we were just ragging on them for their totally lazy product design —

Okay: We were right in the middle of writing that sentence, when we went to the Bath and Body Works website to pull off an image of their Iced Vanilla Vodka Classic Filled Candle ($19.50), which we are pretty sure is the fragrance that led us, like sirens, to the store from literally across the mall, it smelled so delicious. Like heaven. In mall form. We need to share it, because it was ... sublime. And even though we think their packaging is a little familiar, we truly do like and enjoy many of their products.

So anyway, we're paging through all their candles for this posting, when we saw these candles:

Which remind us of another line of candles. Would anyone like to guess what they're called? Sort of like the way their True Blue line looks a little like Bliss? In fact, we are totally serious, we will buy a tube of Great Lash mascara for the first person who leaves a comment with the name of the candles these remind us of. Just so we know we're not crazy. Anyway, Birch Henry Bendel NY filled candles, $26. Blerg blerg blerg. Now ... comment and win!

We love contests. XO BS

Bath and Body Works and a Love of Packaging

Packaging. It must be really, really hard to think of new packaging ideas. We can't even come up with an answer for the perplexing question of what color to paint our walls, a topic which we started considering four years ago. They are still white. We are still failures. (Er, especially at scaling images, apparently.) Back to packaging: We love Bath & Body Works. They make excellent candles, and they once, but no longer, produced the best skin-care line we've ever used. All we're saying is that we noticed some similarities. Like between the new C.O. Bigelow deluxe facial moisturizer ($32) and, say, anything from Kiehl's, including their Creme de Corps ($15). Not that we noticed.

Or maybe Le Couvent des Minimes Honey & Shea Repairing Hand Cream ($21) and L'Occitane's similarly Provence-themed Shea Butter Hand Cream ($23). Actually, we kind of like the Bath & Body Works version a little bit better.

All we're saying is that on first glance, we were like, "They're selling Bliss here?" But they're not. They're selling True Blue Spa. Not the same thing. Plum Plum Body Butter ($32): Not so dissimilar from Grin & Bare It Body Lotion ($15), hmm? But at half the price, we might not give a shit. We're mercenaries at heart, as any of our ex-boyfriends could attest.