Meet Celeste, the Brit award‑winning singer creating a sound that’s all her own

Celeste’s cover shoot is running three hours behind. Partly because the singer-songwriter lives on the other side of town and hit rush-hour traffic on her way here. But mainly, I learn, because today is about more than throwing on a few designer outfits; each look is assembled with the sort of precision reserved for a high-fashion shoot: an embellishment stitched on here, half an hour spent tying a bow there — and with not so much as a strand of hair out of place. Managers with phones glued to the ear drift in and out of the studio and assistants dive frantically between steaming collars and making coffee. It’s quite the fuss for someone shooting their first big cover. Then again, Celeste is becoming the