A chrome heart with a metallic, angelic voice, Jesse Jo Stark unveils her debut album, "Doomed."

Photography LAURIE LYNN STARK Fashion Director JENNIFER EYM&Egrave;RE Styling MYSSIA GHOSN Interview PHILIPPE COMBRES

PHILIPPE COMBRES: Tell us about your new album Doomed, your long-awaited debut LP, and how this music project was born? You are both a singer and a ongwriter, can you tell us about the writing and what&rsquo;s the story behind Doomed? JESSE JO STARK: Doomed touches on the duality of life: love and pain, light and dark, glamor and horror. I don&rsquo;t think we are all just one thing&mdash;I feel like Doomed has been inside of me a while now and it&rsquo;s come at the perfect time. PC: Throughout the album, there are a variety of lyrics that show a sort of conflict between two people. In making this album, did you find it hard to write these lyrics from an emotional standpoint? JJS: No, not at all because everything I do is emotional. I overthink everything and i&rsquo;d like to believe that there&rsquo;s meaning behind it all. The conflict goes deeper than just the two people on the album. With the whole album I wanted to create a story where I&rsquo;m weaving through the bullshit and killing off the main characters, like men, insecurities, and sycophants. PC: What are your musical references? You have said you grew up with country music and rock n&rsquo;roll like The Ramones? JJS: I&rsquo;ve always been fascinated by The Cramps&mdash;there&rsquo;s a feeling of danger and guts that come with punk &amp; rockabilly. PC: The cover art seems to be quite important to the album as a whole. What would you say is the narrative of the cover? What meaning does it hold for you? JJS: I&rsquo;m completely obsessed with horror and comics and pulp art. I&rsquo;m a very visual person and I am always keen on creating a world around my lyrics/ songs. I&rsquo;ve dreamt of working with an artist like Greg[ory Hildebrant]. When we initially spoke, I explained that I wanted to represent duality and showcase the two sides that I believe I have. Representing light and dark I wanted the cover to express the extremes we hold within ourselves.

PC: The visuals and music videos for Doomed draw inspiration from old movies like Breakfast at Tiffany&rsquo;s with Audrey Hepburn, and mix nostalgia with graphics and typography from pulp, pin-ups, comic art, and old Italian illustrations. Can you tell us about the creative process of working on the image for the first big release? JJS: I really wanted this album to be unexpected&mdash;some of my visuals are very elevated and some of them are very lo- fi. I knew I wanted to reference angels and demons&mdash;even something as simple as carrying the smoky eye throughout the entirety of Doomed. PC: In your musical work and life, there seems to be a lot of religious imagery. For example, in your video &ldquo;Lipstick&rdquo; and on the cover of the album itself. Is this intentional? How does this religious imagery inform your work, what story are you trying to tell through it? JJS: It is not intentional but I&rsquo;m just very spiritual&mdash;visually, I have always been drawn to religious symbolism, silhouettes and motifs. PC: You have started a tour for the album and given concerts in London, Paris, Los Angeles and New York. How did you prepare for your album tour? JJS: We&rsquo;ve been rehearsing like crazy and being back in the room with my band has been incredible&mdash;we have the connection I&rsquo;ve been craving. I&rsquo;ve also begun dancing again to get reacquainted with my body. I wanted to really get inside of Doomed and work out how we wanted it to sound live. PC: We just shot a Cover &amp; Fashion story in St Barth for L&rsquo;Officiel with Laurie Lynn Stark, your mother. How was it to work with your mother on the shoot? JJS: My mother is a genius. It&rsquo;s hard to remember that sometimes because I came from her. but her art always amazes me. She&rsquo;s truly herself which is why I think being a muse of hers is so much fun&mdash;you kinda watch this evil (SWEETEST EVER) scientist in the lab creating! She&rsquo;s just fun on set and I believe she deserves more credit for always hitting the nail on the head long before it&rsquo;s in... she&rsquo;s a bad ass boss woman.

PC: Fashion is at the center of your life. How do you use fashion to express yourself? JJS: My family is the center of my life&mdash;fashion is just another word, expression is unidentified. Leaves on the floor in Fall could inspire an entire album&mdash;it just depends how you soak it all up. PC: In the shoot, we mixed Chrome Hearts looks with luxury Maison brands like Prada, Fendi, Louis Vuitton. What are your other favorite designers of the moment, you told me about emerging brands? JJS: I love Tigra Tigra, Di Petsa, Dilara. . . and vintage always, Vivienne Westwood forever. PC: You have a close relationship with St Barth. Tell us about your connection with the island &ndash; do you have a favorite memory? JJS: St Barth is a dream. There&rsquo;s so much heart here. When I think of the island, I think of my brother&mdash;it&rsquo;s as if he lived another life here before. I see my mom cartwheeling on the beach, my dad sleeping in the sun, my grandparents swimming in the pool with Billie (my dog), my sister dancing on the beach. My favorite memory is spending six hours in the water drinking wine and watching the sunset with no real plans. Life really lives there and the people make the island. I love to call it another home. PC: What are your favorite places and your favorite activities in St Barth? JJS: My favorite thing to do is watch the sunset and eat these insane olives I buy every time I am there&mdash;I&rsquo;m really not so much about the nightlife, as I grew up by the beach and that&rsquo;s what feeds me when I am there. PC: In this era, we ask ourselves more questions about the future. What&rsquo;re yours and what do you dream of /wanna change? JJS: I just want to see people show more compassion towards Earth&mdash;you don&rsquo;t have to be an expert in sustainability to do your part and be respectful of the land, the animals, the people&mdash;everything living around us we have to share. I believe that is how change happens, so that&rsquo;s what I try to encourage within the world and around me.

CASTING &amp; ART DIRECTOR: Jenny Mannerheim PHOTO ASSISTANT AND VIDEOGRAPHER: Pablo Gonzalez HAIR AND MAKEUP: Daniel Kolaric Using: Dr. Barbara Sturm Skincare and Pat McGrath Labs Makeup STYLING ASSISTANT &amp; PRODUCER: Marinka Burgos Riano FLORAL ARRANGEMENT: Bloomy et B.Floral Saint Barth <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">LOCATION: Swedish House gardens, SIBARTH&nbsp;

A Doomed Chrome Heart: Jesse Jo Stark

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