Months passed, and I’d all but given up until singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams posted a photo of herself in bed. My first thought was: They’re still available! which was quickly followed by my second: But where? The post has since been deleted, or disappeared, but Silvers’s boyfriend, Dominic Fike, posted a picture with them, too. (I did, however, find an old photo of Bridgers using a nearly identical sheet set in the early aughts - though this, too, proved a dead end.) And then, as if it were a sign from the OEKO-TEX-certified universe, I noticed the sheets pop up on Booksmart actor Diana Silvers’s Instagram. I not only wanted them for myself, I wanted to know where - IKEA could never! - such a particularly pleasing design could have come from.Ī post shared by Phoebe Bridgers checked Reddit threads, Twitter fan accounts, and spent hours on Google, hunting for “space bedding” and all related search terms, to no avail. The design looks straight out of the Space Age, with retro red-and-blue rocket ships sailing through a cotton universe, surrounded by tiny twinkling stars and sketches of blue planets.

Now, I’m not one for patterned sheet sets - and certainly not the ones you’d find on an 8-year-old’s bunk bed - but there was something so decidedly tasteful about Phoebe Bridgers’s planetary duvet cover with matching shams. In a more formal setting, they even served as the background for her bedroom performance of “Kyoto” for The Late Late Show With James Corden. If you do just a cursory scroll of her Instagram, you can find little peeks of them throughout her feed - wrapped around her and her dog, underneath vinyl and more vinyl, behind a magazine cover, and paired with a Gucci dress. I first saw them three years ago, on Phoebe Bridgers’s bed.

Photo: The Late Late Show with James Corden/YouTube

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