It appears that everyone didn’t care for Jean Paul Gaultier’s Amy Winehouse inspired fashions show. Amy’s father, Mitch Winehouse, is lashing out at the designer over last night’s (January 27) tribute show, saying that the event was “purely about Gaultier making money”, and that her image was being used ‘to sell clothes’.
Mitch told Sun Magazine that the show was “in bad taste”. He said: “The family was upset to see those pictures, they were a total shock. We’re still grieving for her loss, and we’ve had a difficult week with the six-month anniversary of Amy’s death. To see her image lifted wholesale to sell clothes was a wrench we were not expecting or consulted on.”
He continued:
“We’re proud of her influence on fashion but find black veils on models, smoking cigarettes with a barbershop quartet singing her music in bad taste. It portrays a view of Amy when she was not at her best, and glamorises some of the more upsetting times in her life. That’s upsetting for her family.”
It also appears that Mitch is upset that the famous designer didn’t offer to make a donation to the Amy Winehouse Foundation. Amy died aged 27 at her home in Camden, North London, last July 23.
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