Energetic, charismatic and sensitive, Stella Rose Gahan is someone who hardly leaves you unmoved when you meet her. Launching her last album Eyes Of Glass this past April, the 23-year-old artist has already made her own mark on today’s rock and roll scene. We met with Stella Rose in Paris on the occasion of Celine’s latest SS24 presentation.

Who are your biggest inspirations and why?

Inspiration can be a bit mysterious at times. It isn’t always as obvious or significant as it appears. My inspirations can be in simple things like people watching — catching a moment between two strangers. It makes me feel connected. Like there is something larger at work. It is really beautiful when you catch a glimpse of another person's life, someone you may never see again. It feels like a secret. Human behaviour is inspiring to me. Synchronicities in life that seem impossibly timed. My second love is photography and films. Words give imagery, and it is what I am most drawn to achieving when writing.

How do you perceive today’s New York rock and roll scene and how do you feel being a part of it?

I sort of keep my head down and do my own thing. I think New York is brilliant that way since you can kind of disappear in it all. Things are always changing and evolving and I think it is important to just do what feels right and everything else will follow.

You released an album Eyes of Glass last April. How did you compose it and what does it symbolize to you?

Eyes of Glass feels like a symbolism of many letters to myself in the last few years of my life. Having a sort of Hell Hath No Fury spin. I can be quite dramatic when it comes to love.

Where do you find beauty and poetry?

My mother is beauty and poetry in my life. She gives me resources to express myself and honour my heart.

What is your relationship to fashion and how does it relate to music?

Clothing is instrumental to who I want to be for the day when I get dressed in the morning or for a performance. It sets the tone. People like David Bowie, Debbie Harry, it goes on. Playing dress up is magical and seductive. Alluring colours and silhouettes telling stories of their own. It can be a superpower.