Guess what Pop Star Jean Paul Gaultier raised from the DEAD!

January 29th, 2012 by Hotel Fashionland received 2 Comments »

Designer Jean Paul Gaultier paid homage to Amy Winehouse’s unique style at his Paris runway show earlier this week. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right?  Wrong, if you’re the late singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse. “We don’t support the Jean Paul Gaultier collection. It is in poor taste,” the elder Winehouse tweeted, incensed at his daughter’s image being used to sell clothes. “The family was upset to see those pictures.  They were a total shock,” He told The Sun.”  We’re still grieving, and we’ve had a difficult week with the six-month anniversary of Amy’s death.” 

Mitch said Gaultier’s show portrayed “a view of Amy when she was not at her best, glamorizing some of the more upsetting times in her life.” Mitch felt it inappropriate to try and cash in on his daughter’s legacy.” To see her image lifted wholesale to sell clothes was a wrench we were not expecting or consulted on. 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.” 

Amy’s Father wasn’t the only harsh critic of the celebrity fashion designer.  Kelly Osbourne, a close friend of Amy Winehouse, also Tweeted in response: “Although @JPGaultier was paying homage to my friend and icon to the world, I found it to be lucratively selfish and distasteful. Exploitation=evil.”  Do you think JPG went over the edge?

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2 Responses to “Guess what Pop Star Jean Paul Gaultier raised from the DEAD!”

  1. banananana says:

    I find the title of this piece deliciously more offensive than anything Jean Paul Gaultier had in mind ,after all he was just ”trying to make some badly needed Euros” andpretty much that now means anything goes.

  2. DIRTY SECRET says:

    I find the title of this piece deliciously more offensive than anything Jean Paul Gaultier had in mind ,after all he was just ”trying to make some badly needed Euros” and pretty much that now means anything goes.