“I keep in mind Co-Star saying friendship is essentially the most romantic love,” says Phoebe Bridgers, referring to the astrology app identified for its blunt, pithy method to describing what the planets have in retailer for us. “And I really feel like Valentine’s Day is all the time far more about my platonic or borderline-platonic friendships as an alternative of my romantic ones.”
Simply in time for the vacation, the musician is releasing two new charms as a part of her ongoing collaboration with Catbird, the Brooklyn-based jeweler that made carrying piles of tiny gold rings, delicate chains, and minuscule hoop earrings a factor. Accessible in the present day on the Catbird web site and in Bridgers’s merch retailer, the brand new assortment options motifs and lyrics that will probably be acquainted to any Bridgers superfan, rendered in sterling silver and 14-karat yellow gold. The primary drop, that includes a greatest good friend allure with a cranium design, bought out inside 24 hours—so if you already know somebody who would cherish a petite, pearl-encrusted UFO, act rapidly.
“I really like just about something to do with house, whether or not it’s actual or not,” says Bridgers. “I like bizarre theories about aliens, I like astronomy and astrology—something with an area aesthetic, whether or not it’s the Mars Rover or stars on a little bit child’s ceiling.” The flying saucer allure, with its pearl prime and chain tassel that evokes a beam of sunshine, is as candy as it’s mysterious. It’s additionally a nod to how Bridgers typically indicators autographs, accenting her signature with a fast little spaceship sketch.
The opposite allure within the assortment, a moonstone cabochon with “I’d provide the moon,” a lyric from “Moon Music,” engraved in Bridgers’s handwriting on the again, affords a New Age twist on the basic solitaire. I ask Bridgers if the “energetic” properties of the stone—moonstone is taken into account by those that are into crystals as one with a robust artistic and intuitive pressure—have been essential to her. “I don’t know quite a bit about crystals, however I’m a passive fan of crystals, and I’ve numerous stuff that associates have given me, together with numerous moonstone,” she says. “I’ve been fascinated by it ever since I used to be a child. It’s cool and iridescent and I like how a lot it modifications with the sunshine.”
By way of how she envisions the items being shared come February 14th, she refers again to Co–Star’s steerage: “I really like breaking down what we consider after we consider giving any individual jewellery,” Bridgers says. “I hope individuals give the items to their associates, they usually can have a valuable, earnest trade.”