Amy Winehouse's Family Offended Over Amy-Inspired Fashion Show

Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 01.27.2012

They say it's in bad taste...

Amy Winehouse's father has struck out at designer Jean Paul Gaultier for using Amy as the inspiration for his Spring 2012 fashion show. Mitch said that the show, which included models walking the catwalk with beehives and Amy's famous eyeliner style while a barbershop quartet sang her songs, was "in bad taste."

"The family were upset to see those pictures, they were a total shock," Mitch said. "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 added, "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 glamorizes some of the more upsetting times in her life. That's upsetting for her family."

Gaultier defended the show, saying, "I think Amy Winehouse was truly a fashion icon. To me the scandal is that no fashion magazine did an Amy Winehouse cover. She was so exceptional in her style; how she held her body; the way she dressed, mixing pieces from different decades."