Amy Winehouse Partners With Fred Perry for Fashion Collection
Amy Winehouse is collaborating with British label Fred Perry for a 17-piece collection that will arrive in stores in October. WWDreports that the garments will have a black and pink palette. Items in the collection include pencil skirts, capri pants, polo shirts and a mini bowling dress. The pieces will cost between $32 and $150 and will be sold at Fred Perry Authentic boutiques and through select wholesalers. You can see a few more sketches of pieces from the upcoming collection here.
Amy Winehouse Designing Capsule Collection for PPQ
Grazia is reporting that Amy Winehouse is going to be designing a capsule collection for British fashion label PPQ. Amy Winehouse will be working with Amy Molyneaux at PPQ.
'There have been talks with Amy and we are now in the first stages of the project,' Amy Molyneaux, one half of PPQ design duo, told us at the Mulberry Romance party. 'The range will be all about high-end statement pieces, inspired by Amy's style. For example maybe an amazing piece of jewellery like a bracelet or a dress. It's going to be distributed online, we are going to be providing all materials and doing the design, but Amy will definitely be involved in the creative process. It will be very different to Peaches' line for PPQ as that was more of a diffusion line - this will be a homage to Amy's look.
Amy Winehouse has been struggling lately. She had to cancel her appearance at the the 50th anniversary of the Island Records music label. She's also been dropped from a Quincy Jones tribute album after "being made to wait over a year for her contribution." Hopefully, Amy Winehouse will be able to spend enough time with PPQ to complete the collection.
Amy Winehouse ended a concert at the St Lucia Jazz festival early. A spokesperson for Amy Winehouse blames "technical difficulties" and says,
"circumstances beyond anyone's control meant that this special show did not go as planned."
The BBC reports that fans aren't buying the spokesperson's excuses and have criticized Winehouse's performance. At one point on stage Amy Winehouse reportedly told the crowd, "Sorry, I'm bored."
He blamed the bad weather and said Winehouse would like to "express her disappointment" that the gig ended.
Despite that fans have criticised her performance. Local resident Ben said her singing was "painful".
He added: "What a wasted talent."
At one stage Winehouse appeared to forget the words to a song and told the crowd, "Sorry, I'm bored".
Eminem is back. In his new video he makes fun of Jessica Simpson, Tony Romo, Amy Winehouse, Sarah Palin, Brett Michaels, Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, John Mayer, Jennifer Aniston and many more. At least we now know what he's been doing the past few years: watching endless episodes of Star Trek. Eminem has lost a lot of weight and appears to be back in shape for the launch of his new album. Take a look:
Singer, Songwriter Lily Allen Tries U.S. Music Market Again
British singer Lily Allen has had plenty of success in the UK but Lily's first attempt to break into the U.S. music scene was thwarted by visa problems and canceled concerts. The Wall Street Journalsays Lily is trying to reach U.S. listeners again this year. Lily says she's tired of being compared to Amy Winehouse, who she says she's nothing like.
Ms. Allen is tired of the debate, especially after being pitted against Ms. Winehouse constantly in the U.K. media. "I've never been so compared to someone in my life, and I just felt like, what's this all about? We're both just girls. That's the only thing we have in common," she says. "What defines me isn't that I'm young and I'm female."
It's sentiments like these that fuel much of her new music. "The Fear," the album's lead single, is a satirical song about material excess, set to a glammy pulse. With echoes of Madonna's "Material Girl," Ms. Allen sings about being "a weapon of massive consumption," hoping for riches and coveting diamonds. "I hear people die when they're trying to find them," she sings.
When the song was written, she says, "I honestly thought it was about someone different. Now, in retrospect, I see that 'The Fear' is all about me and everything I feel guilty about."
Lily Allen's album, It's Not Me, It's You, will hit stores on February 9th and in the U.S. on February 10th. Here's the music video for Lily's latest single, "The Fear."
The Sun is reporting that troubled singer Amy Winehouse is working on designs for Fred Perry, a UK fashion label. The article says Amy Winehouse sometimes wears Fred Perry shirts and bragged that she was working on designs for Fred Perry at a hotel bar.
Amy, 25, who often wears Fred Perry shirts, blurted out the news in a hotel bar on the Caribbean isle of St Lucia.
One holidaymaker said: "She was almost childishly excited and couldn't stop talking about it."
The women's line for Fred Perry includes smock shirts, jersey tops and polo shirts. Fred Perry also has a music label called Subculture. The Sun says Fred Perry has not commented on the news. We are skeptical of this rumor but if it's true then maybe it will be good creative outlet for Amy Winehouse.
You know how people rent machines to make cotton candy for parties sometimes? Well, you might want to be on the spot when the sweet treat is actually made. A new
report
says that Amy Winehouse mixes cocaine powder into her cotton candy machine and voila! -- cocaine laced cotton candy. Some "friend" showed her how to do it and she eats it all the time.
She cuts a tragic figure with her drug ravaged features but Amy Winehouse's latest exploits have seen her hit a new low.
In a parody of more innocent past-times, the troubled singer has taken to lacing candyfloss with cocaine.
Ms Winehouse has a £700 candyfloss machine into which she reportedly sprinkles wraps of cocaine before whipping up the sweet treat - her 'coke 'n candy special'.
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A source close to the singer told told the News of the World the concoction was created by a friend.
The source said: 'It was Mick's idea. The candyfloss machine was Amy's pride and joy and he thought it would be funny to give it a boost.
'He and a some pals sprinkled a wrap of coke into the mixture and Amy started eating it before she realised what they'd done. She now thinks it's a hoot to do the same.'
The whole Amy Winehouse story is so sad and awful. It certainly looks she's on another downward spiral. Cocaine in cotton candy? That's just horrifying. And probably pretty hard to detect if you're an unsuspecting party guest, we're thinking. So, you've been warned.
Amy Winehouse has singlehandedly brought the beehive hairstyle back into the public consciousness. (It had been lying dormant our our subconscious since the B-52s burst on the scene.) In London, women are asking for backcombing in record numbers. So journalist Celia Walden trotted off to top London stylist Hari to try the beehive for herself. She only used her own hair in the process. To get a huge beehive like Amy Winehouse's, you'd have to use furballs like she does to give it more volume. Yes, furballs, that's what we said.
Post-rehab fashion is all the rage these days. The L.A. Times -- never one to let a mini-trend slip under its radar -- has done a full investigation
into how to dress like a starlet who is now out of rehab and looking to improve her image. Key items include the long head scarf, hair carefully styled to look like you just rolled out of bed, string bracelets, super-short shorts and a vacant stare.
But playing the role of a hard-partying, post-rehab hottie doesn't stop with attending weekly meetings or accessorizing with ankle monitors. These women have cultivated an unkempt uniform, and they are wearing it long after "treatment" is completed. And now that the look has been glamorized, it's been imitated by style girls who haven't crossed the clinic door -- along with Olsen, Mischa Barton and Kirsten Dunst come to mind.
One has to wonder about this deliberate sloppiness. Richie and Lohan may have completed stays in the clinic, but they don't look like they are making sober style choices. Maybe it's an anti-fashion statement, a kind of neo-punk, neo-hippie expression in this slick, paparazzi-fueled, celebrity-hyped era. For these famous mannequins, it's become too easy to hire a stylist and dress from a rack of free designer clothes. Maybe they're tired of being Hollywood's teenage box-office bait and the fashion industry's well-manicured shills. Surely, it gets old being stalked and photographed 24/7. So looking bad and behaving badly has become the ultimate form of rebellion.
Breaking down the post-rehab look, sunglasses are, of course, oversized to disguise bloodshot eyes. Other essentials include a flirty off-the-shoulder blouse (no bra), a suede vest and lace-up Minnetonka boots. An all-access pass to a muddy music festival is optional.
But the head scarf is not. It is the trend-setting halo that symbolizes newfound light and purity, the 21st century sobriety chip. It's a status symbol, a badge of honor that's especially effective when worn around yet-to-be-reformed peers.
The scarf (by Alexander McQueen or, in more recent days, Thomas Wylde), preferably with a skull print, must be tied haphazardly around a mess of bed-head hair, the crown teased into a pouf that looks as if you've just taken a romp in a tour bus bunk. Then there's the spacey gaze, the thing that forecasts that all-important "I don't have my act together and could jeopardize a production schedule at any moment" attitude.
Kimberly Stewart has adopted the post-rehab look as her signature. (After all, she is rock royalty.) She could win a sleepy-eyed, '70s chick costume contest at any given moment of the day. In recent weeks, she has introduced a few updates, including Swiss Miss braids, non-frayed denim hot shorts and a sequin vest instead of worn-in suede.
No, Stewart has not been to rehab. But whether a girl has been is beside the point -- as long as she is committed to wearing the gear that keeps people focused on her next move, challenging onlookers to wonder if she will stay awake, take a face-dive into a banquette at Hyde or keep the pressure at bay and gross millions on opening weekend.
We so have the vacant stare down pat, especially before we've had our morning latte. You can't really see our eyes though, under our giant sunglasses which we've been wearing for years simply because we despise tiny sunglasses.
We have been wearing a bit bigger hair, but haven't yet gone over to the Amy Winehouse beehive look though. We're waiting to see how she looks after she gets out of rehab. Will drug counseling de-poof her hair? And speaking of Kimberly Stewart, why is she famous again? And as for her faux post-rehab rich hippy look, Stevie Nicks did it better thirty years ago.
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