The South London musician provided a haunting live soundtrack to the latest Valentino collection at Milan Fashion Week.
Singer-Songwriter Cosima on Her Showstopping Performance at Valentino
Last Friday, the British singer-songwriter Cosima released her latest and most ambitious EP yet, The Fun Is Here?—an eclectic lineup of songs exploring heartbreak and hope, all centered around the striking soulfulness and crystalline clarity of Cosima’s vocals. Instead of celebrating the release at home in London, however, she found herself finishing up her two-week quarantine in a Milan hotel ahead of her performance at yesterday’s Valentino show. Despite the title of the EP, it seems the fun isn’t here just yet.
“The project is called the fun is here, but there’s a question mark at the end, too,” Cosima notes. “There are moments of real sadness in the project.” A product of her time in lockdown—she adds that when it became clear things would be shutting down imminently last spring, she spent a few days in the studio recording “all the vocals I could think of” to make sure she had enough material to play with—the album speaks to her desire to keep creating even as the world shifted irrevocably around her. “I think the production of art can’t stop just because some commercial things aren’t as viable. Ultimately, it’s more than a commercial thing. It's also about giving people something to help them deal with what’s going on in the world. For me, it was kind of the perfect moment to sit with everything and find that closure through the songs.”
Cosima performing at the Valentino fall 2021 show in Milan.
Courtesy of ValentinoThis story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Liam Hess
