If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what everyday stuff famous people add to their carts — like hair spray or an electric toothbrush. We asked Remi Wolf — whose album Big Ideas was released earlier this summer — about the stylish chef pants, sparkling wine, and Food Network TV show she can’t live without.
Prior to my album release, there was this one meeting that I was in where they gave me a bunch of free snacks, and in the batch of snacks was a tin of Altoids. And it was kind of a revelation, because I am always concerned about my breath, but I’ve just never done anything about that, which is very classic of me to have anxieties and not address them. But then the universe kind of put this tin of Altoids in my purse, and all of a sudden I was like, Oh, Altoids are kind of the best mint. Because they’re chewable — you can pound them, essentially. You can just keep eating and then you’re minty fresh. So that’s been my journey with Altoids. They’re also a kind of vintagey-looking vibe, which I always like. It’s much cuter than a Tic Tac.
Meals is this brand that’s based out of L.A. that makes stylish chef pants, hence the name Meals. They’re just so comfortable and loose and baggy, I love them. It’s a small business and they hand-make everything. I know the owner, and it’s a very cool company; they’re really fun with their marketing. I own probably 20 pairs, because, for a while, I was dressing my band in head-to-toe Meals. They have a bottom-and-top workwear situation, and it’s just very cute, very comfortable, and very Eastside L.A. If you want to come to L.A. and look very Eastside L.A., get a pair of fucking Meals pants and a vintage T-shirt and then you’re chill.
My personal most-worn pairs are a dark forest-green pair and a black-and-white-checkered pair. My band is always wearing either purple ones or a pattern called Blue Cheese, but we just call it “the cheeses.” Before every show, we’re always like, All right, cheeses or purples? And then we kind of vibe it out depending on what we’re feeling that day. But, honestly, every color is awesome.
I wear Thé Noir 29 perfume from Le Labo. It’s foolproof. Anytime I wear it, I get told I smell good. Or it’s like, Who smells good? And I’m always like, It’s me, by the way. It’s the most well-balanced scent ever. It’s like a sweet, woody, musky, sexy vibe. It’s kind of like a sweet, woody mush, but it’s still very androgynous. I wear it every day, literally all day. It’s in my purse — straight up, it looks like hell because the label’s so worn off from it being fucked with in my purse.
I love canned fish. Always have, always will. There has been an uptick in the amount of companies that are doing canned fish in a really awesome, elevated way. And Fish Wife is just one of my favorites. I’ll make a salad or I’ll make quinoa — literally anything — and I’ll add this. I’ll put a piece of bread on a plate, take the tuna out of the can, put it on the bread, and it’s delicious. And I’m super into that ease because, right now, I truly don’t have enough time to actually cook. Anything that I can just take out and put on a piece of bread, I’m loving that.
My friend introduced me to this company. It’s an L.A.-based company that makes really hippie jewelry shit. And I specifically really, really love one of their rings. It looks great, feels great, and fits on all my fingers. I have had this ring for probably four months, and that is a long time for me. I’m the type of person who, when jewelry comes into my life, I will wear it every day until I lose it. And I almost always lose it. But this ring I haven’t lost yet. Well, I actually did leave it at a hotel last weekend, but they’re sending it back to me.
The whole time I was making my album, Big Ideas, I was staying at a hotel in New York, and it became routine for me to come home from the studio, hang out with friends, and order this Lambrusco in the hotel lobby. It was the first time I ever had Lambrusco, and I was kind of blown away that you could have a red wine that was sparkling and cold. I was like, Wow, this is what adults do. It’s a very dark, thick, juicy, sexy Lambrusco.
So, I went back to the hotel recently — the same one I fucking left the ring at last week — and I brought my whole band to the lobby. I’m like, Guys, this is the best Lambrusco ever, you need to try it. I told everyone to order this Lambrusco … and they had changed it on the menu. I went up to the bar and asked if they had any more of the old one, and the bartenders checked for me — they were really fucking awesome. They were like, We’re so sorry, we don’t have anymore, but here’s the name of the old one that we used to carry. And I was like, okay, at least I can sleep restfully at night knowing I have the name of that Lambrusco.
When I was a kid, the Food Network was kind of my safe space. And still to this day, as a 28-year-old woman, it remains my safe space, maybe in an even more intense way than it used to. I get home from long days of working and I just put that show on. I was actually watching it last night, and I was trying to figure out why I like it so much. It’s not like an intense competition show. They’re all having a great time, and it’s sweet and cute and funny and very familial. I feel like I approach my band and my collaborations and all of that in the same way that they approach this show. I feel like we have a similar ethos as businesses, or artists or people. Me and the show, same ethos. And I really want to be on the show so bad. My dream is to be a guest judge. I don’t want to cook, but I’ll be a guest judge.
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Passion fruit is my favorite fruit by far. Whenever there is passion fruit around, in any sort of capacity, I will be eating it. This pie is from this place called Doubting Thomas. I don’t know what the hell they’re doing over there, but the pie is just cracked out. It’s like a graham cracker, brown butter, macadamia nut crust, and then just passion fruit custard with a massive amount of whipped cream on top. It’s fucking delicious. The day that I released my album, I had a party at my house and I bought three of these pies, and the number of people that night and the day after who texted me about the pie, or came over the next day for a hungover cleaning session with me and were like, Dude, the fucking pie … It was crazy. It’s just so good. I don’t know what else to say.
During the summer, I’ve been a huge proponent of big basketball shorts with a cowboy boot. I’ve been wearing them at a lot of my shows recently. They’re comfortable and they’re easy to run around in, and they make me feel like I’m doing something without me having to wear a crazy heel or something. It makes me feel like I’m fitted up without really being all that fitted up. It’s like with the Meals pants — fitted up, looks cute, but literally the comfiest thing ever. And that’s how I feel with these boots. I really gravitate toward clothing that I can wear in my day-to-day life that can easily transition to looking good on stage. These boots and the Meals pants are both in that category of clothing.
My current pair, I think I’ve had for six months. And I’ve worn the fuck out of them. I wore them when I headlined the Capitol Hill Block Party a couple weeks ago. At the end of the concert, we smashed my face into a cake. The day after, we were leaving Seattle, and I looked at my shoes and they were covered in frosting. So now there’s frosting-oil stains on them, which I’m going to have to get buffed out or something, but I still have worn them since. They still look good.
It’s a camo hat, which is my favorite type of hat, and it has the name of my song in a beautiful pink embroidered cursive. I wear it all the time. I feel like a sexy villain. You can feel like a sexy villain if you wear it. It’s very self-explanatory, which I love in an article of clothing.
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