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Amy Winehouse’s Dad Rips Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion “Tribute” (PHOTOS)

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Amy Winehouse’s father tore into Jean Paul Gaultier for the designer’s Wednesday fashion show, where models emulated the late singer’s signature style.

At the Paris Fashion Week show, Gaultier models walked the runway sporting beehive-style hair, excessive eyeliner and clothing similar to what Winehouse used to wear.

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The designer called the show a “tribute” to the late British songstress, but Winehouse’s dad had a different take.

“We don’t support the Jean Paul Galtier collection,” Winehouse’s father Mitch said on Twitter Thursday. “It’s in bad taste.”

Mitch further told The Sun, “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,” he added.

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Mitch emphasized that he was never contacted about Gaultier’s intentions and suggested a donation to the Amy Winehouse Foundation would’ve been appropriate.

“This is purely about Gaultier making money, and that’s wrong,” he told the paper.

Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment on July 23.

Check out video and photos from the event below.

What do you think? Tribute – or tasteless?

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  • RIP Amy Winehouse

    I don’t think its in bad taste at all. Amy Winehouse had a unique taste in fashion and this fashion designer just glorified it. I agree that the designer could’ve shared some of the funds and donated it to her foundation. But in all, I love the styles!

  • iHeartJLO

    the designs are perfect.

  • Em

    Get over yourself Mitch it’s a tribute show, Amy should have been as stylish as these models, she always looked trashed and Amy didn’t invent this style she simply resurrected it from the 1940’s zoot suit trend mashed up with 50′s bad girl al la Grease. Amy was interesting but she wasn’t the be all and end all her dad makes her out to be. Also who runs this foundation and where do the funds go? I’m always a bit suspicious of theses celebrity foundations aka Madonna and Sting.

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