by Marissa on January 27, 2012 4:00pm
At Paris Fashion Week, Jean Paul Gaultier presented a couture collection inspired by the late Amy Winehouse, and her father Mitch recently spoke out against the tribute, calling it in “bad taste.”
“The family was upset to see those pictures, they were a total shock,” Winehouse told The Sun. “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
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by Sabrina on December 8, 2011 11:00am
Although the days are certifiably shorter, they seem much, much longer and the silver lining to that is having more time to listen to new music.
This weeks biggest releases include Amy Winehouse‘s posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures, Trent Reznor & Karen O’s cover of “Immigrant Song” for David Fincher‘s new film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and the music video for Foster The People’s “Call It What You Want.”
The Week’s Best Album: Amy Winehouse – “Our Day Will Come”
Ever since the untimely death of Amy Winehouse this past July, there’s been a
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by Marissa on December 8, 2011 8:00am
If you’ve ever had an urge to own the Indiana Jones whip used by Harrison Ford in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” you’ll want to be in London on December 15, when it goes on the auction block at Bonhams.
The original bullwhip from the 1981 movie is expected to go for between $48,000 and $56,000, and comes with a letter of authenticity from Kit West, who was in charge of the film’s special effects.
The Indiana Jones whip is the latest of several high-profile auctions of celebrity memorabilia. In October, we saw Marilyn Monroe‘s ...Read more
by Marissa on November 30, 2011 8:18am
The chiffon dress Amy Winehouse wore on the cover of “Back to Black” has sold at auction for £43,200 (about $67,500). Chile’s Fundacion Museo de la Moda purchased the red-and-white Disaya frock for four times its asking price; Disaya donated all proceeds to the Amy Winehouse Foundation.
“We are just over the moon and this is a wonderful start to the foundation,” said Mitch Winehouse, who attended the event at London’s Kerry Taylor Auctions. The auction took place just days before a new Amy Winehouse album is set to be released; the event also auctioned off frocks
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by Marissa on October 26, 2011 9:31am
U.K. coroners have revealed the official Amy Winehouse cause of death, ruling it “death by misadventure” due to alcohol poisoning. After remaining sober for three solid weeks, the troubled 27-year-old downed enough vodka to bring her blood alcohol content up to well over five times the legal limit, at 416 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood.
Amy Winehouse’s family released a statement that expressed their reaction to Amy’s cause of death. It read, in part, “It is some relief to finally find out what happened to Amy… The court heard that Amy was battling hard
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