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Amy Winehouse
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Amy Winehouse incorporates the disdain of her lyrics, and the insanity of her lifestyle, into a definitive, enigmatic style.
Unique to Winehouse is the fusion of her jazz background and the retro styling inspired from classic girl groups from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Harking back to such grounded times gives Winehouse’s current musical and stylistic output a sense of authenticity.
Yet her look is far from decade specific, on occasion mixing in a polka dotted blouse, to juxtapose her more modern and punk inspired tattoos and facial piercing. It is not rare to see her combine the current obsession with skinny jeans with a head scarf more appropriate of a 1950’s homemaker.
Her brazen example of style handpicking is what makes every new picture of her so appetizing and her place as a purveyor of individual aesthetic hard to argue against.
In both her fashion and her personal life, Winehouse rejects the expected and introduces her own empowering interpretation of who she sees herself to be. She’s been successful in molding a persona that has yet to be imitated, whether through eyes lashes of epic proportions, or by rocking the toothless gap with panache
If our appearance is a reflection of our inner selves, Amy is as honest in her style as she is in her self-penned music. Her massive and neck-cramping beehive is never too kept. The untamed nest, like the singer, is a tangled expression of human emotion. Tied up, a muted mess, and often hanging low on one side, each strand is another soulful lyric sung in her turbulent life.
True pop icons inspire, and are able to transcend beyond music and become engrained into a much larger public sphere. Sometimes it takes a school girl outfit, or a Union Jack dress, but currently it’s all about the beehive.
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