“I think there’s probably 20 to 30 items in here,” Gracie Abrams says, plopping her black velvet Chanel 25 bag on the table. “But I could be wrong—there could be upwards of 30. We’ll find out together.” (Spoiler alert: it’s many, many more.)
First on the docket is a pile of cords knotted together, ensnaring an eyelash curler and a pen. “This is a perfect representation of the state of things,” she jokes. Included in her nest of wires are her headphones, which she’s been using to listen to Japanese Breakfast, Jeff Buckley, Haim, and Lady Gaga.
The singer’s bag is also something of a portable pharmacy. Voice preservation is naturally top of mind, so Abrams carries Ricola cough drops and a steroid inhaler (“really sexy”) with her. But she’s also got Flonase, Flamingo Estate Maunka Honey cream, lavender-scented hand sanitizer, Advil, electrolyte mix, and—what’s that?—another Flonase!
Abrams is feeling especially motivated thanks to the new midnight blue journal she’s had for the past month or so, which she bought at her “favorite store in the world,” Choosing Keeping in London. “It feels charged, energetically,” she says. “There’s something very inspiring about this journal.” Ideally, she likes to keep separate her songwriting and journaling spaces, but, hey, when inspiration strikes… Today, however, she writes, “Sitting here, showing Vogue my nasal sprays. What a life.”
What a life, indeed! Here, watch on as Gracie Abrams gives us a tour of her stuffed-to-the-brim bag, from the custom sticker a fan made of her dog, Weenie, to the lip product that makes her feel instantly like herself.