
“Written before the invasion,” she clarifies. It’s her most ambitious work so far: a capacious collection with songs about time, Japan and Russia.

Her new album, Sleep, is out in November.

She poured out poetry and songs that would form the basis for her 2016 debut, Optimist, in Black. She found herself in Ireland, cut off from everyone. Guinness started recording music after her brother Jasper, a horticulturalist, died of cancer in 2011. “Music was my reaction to grief.” So speaks Daphne Guinness, doyenne of British fashion, on a rainy afternoon in Abbey Road Studios, home to the UK’s music industry for close to a century - and now to her too.
