For Róisín Murphy, toying with pop culture and iconography has been a daily duty throughout her career, since she came across and became part of the British underground club scene at 19. After a prolific career as one half of the electro-pop duo Moloko, she went on with a solo gig starting in 2003 with her debut album “Ruby Blue,”  followed by 2007’s release of “Overpowered.”

Artworks for both, as well as her stage performances, have shown her penchant for over-the-top fashion from the likes of Viktor & Rolf and Gareth Pugh — yet she can easily trade outrageous concoctions for a laid-back cashmere sweat and as of late has been more into young talents fresh off collage than established names.

After putting the last touches on her upcoming album produced by Dj Koze and due out in the early summer of 2023, she flew to Trieste, Italy, to be part of the International Talent Support contest’s jury.

While there, she found a few minutes to chat with WWD about her style icons, fashion and more.

WWD: How do you as a person select your fashion as opposed to you as an artist?

Róisín Murphy: I’m more casual in life than I am onstage, stage is accented, and part of my performance is that fighting, actually, with clothes, with identity and struggling with archetypes and I have a sense it could go wrong and so I’m well-known for pulling trousers in front of everyone and suddenly something turn into another thing, another emotion. I…