Amy Winehouse Father Upset Over Jean Paul Gaultier’s Runway Show

Paying homage is a nice gesture, but sometimes it can piss off people.

Earlier this week, Jean Paul Gaultier hosted his haute couture runway show in Paris. As he showed off his new line, he paid tribute to the Amy Winehouse by having his models rock the beehive hair do that the late singer regularly rocked. While many saw this as a sign of respect, the Amy Winehouse family saw it as a slap in the face.

“We don’t support Jean Paul Gaultier collection,” Mitch Winehouse tweeted yesterday. “It’s in bad taste.”

In an interview with The Sun, the singer’s father says the tribute came as a total shock to him and the rest of the family. Seeing photos from the show upset the family, as they are still “grieving for her loss” and “had a difficult week with the six-month anniversary of Amy’s death.” He was upset to “see her image lifted wholesale to sell clothes,” especially since they were not consulted on the issue. He also felt the models were dressed in poor taste.

“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 says. “It portrays a view of Amy when she was not at her best, and glamorises some of the more upsetting times in her life. That’s upsetting for her family.”

Amy Winehouse was not the only person upset over the fashion show. Friend of the late singer and Fashion Police panelist Kelly Osbourne tweeted that ”although Gaultier was paying homage to her friend & icon to the world, she found it to be lucratively selfish and distasteful.”