Winehouse tribute gone wrong?

What was suppose to be a tribute for the late Amy Winehouse has turned into a horrorshow for family and friends of the British singer. During Paris Fashion Week S/S 2012, French designer Jean Paul Gaultier paid homage to the late singers iconic style.

Models were sent down the runway wearing Winehouse's beehive hairstyle, heavy eyeliner, fitted pencil skirts and corset dresses with death veils while four crooners sang her hit song “Rehab”.

Mitch Winehouse, father of Amy, is now speaking out. He is telling the press how upsetting the show was to the family. The show took place just after the half-year anniversary of the singer’s death. Gaultier has admitted that he has never met the singer, and has also explained how “similar their styles were, and how the show was meant to be a tribute to the British singer’s iconic sense of style”. But Mr. Winehouse was not impressed and has reached out to the British newspaper, The Sun stating, “ The family and I were very upset. It was a total shock to have seen those pictures. We are still grieving the loss”. Mitch Winehouse was disappointed to see how his daughter was portrayed because it shows her in her darkest time and brought back upsetting memories in the singers life, which was most offensive for the family. It’s not only the Winehouse family who is hurt by this tribute. Kelly Osbourne, a close friend of the singer had plenty to say on Twitter about the designer, proclaiming it was a branding decision and has called him lucrative, selfish, and distasteful. Was this too soon?

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