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Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, a favorite of Lady Gaga, is catching heat after presenting his Amy Winehouse-inspired spring/summer 2012 collection at Paris Fashion Week.

Winehouse's family is a bit miffed that the over-the-top designer, perhaps best known as the man behind Madonna's famous cone bra bustier (which is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum), approximated Winehouse's signature style looks with a collection heavy on brightly-colored '60s style looks and beehive-sporting models wearing heavy black eyeliner. Gaultier admitted Winehouse directly inspired his collection, telling reporters, "Amy Winehouse was a true style icon. What she stands for above all, is uniqueness. Both in music and the way she dressed, she mixed a great many influences to create her style."

Well, Mitch Winehouse isn't feeling the love today and in a statement said the singer's family was upset when they saw images from the show, particularly because the look and presentation reflected the more troubled aspects of the "Back To Black" stars life and because Gaultier hadn't offered to make a donation to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, adding that the show was "purely about Gaultier making money."

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By Zachary Swickey

Unlike some posthumous musical careers, it appears that fans of Amy Winehouse won’t get to hear all of the unreleased songs the singer recorded before her untimely death. The Guardian reports that record execs intend to honor Amy’s wishes by not releasing around a dozen unfinished tracks that the singer did not want the public to hear.

While we highly anticipate the release of Lioness: Hidden Treasures, the upcoming posthumous collection from Winehouse, the disc will likely be the final material we get to hear from the singer. Island Records’ Darcus Beese discussed the matter with Music Week magazine, stating, “We’ve had to qualify [Lioness] in front of Amy’s family. Her mum, her dad, her brother – that’s her very vocal, protective brother – plus fiancés, stepfathers and more.”

Beese defends the release of the new 12-track album, explaining they are songs Amy wanted the public to hear, but says he will adhere to Winehouse’s wishes by leaving around a dozen other tracks in the Island vaults. He makes no mention of why exactly the singer didn’t want all of her material heard; however, the lock-up is certainly not due to a lack of quality. Read More...

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Eternally troubled singer Amy Winehouse was forced to scrap her entire European comeback tour after a disastrous performance in Belgrade, Serbia, during which the singer seemed incredibly intoxicated, stumbled around the stage and was unable to remember the words to her own songs. Winehouse has a long, storied and sad history of substance abuse, but seemed to have been doing better recently. She put on a stellar show in London just a few days before her botched show in Serbia, leading to more than a few “Amy Is Back” headlines.

The announcements were prophetic, but not in the way fans hoped. The Amy that took the stage in Belgrade was not the soulful songstress that thrilled audiences in 2006, when her “Back to Black” record ruled the charts. Instead, fans got the troubled star that emerged a year later.

It’s easy to assume the “Valerie” singer will never be able to get it together, but Dr. Karen Khaleghi of Creative Care Malibu tells MTV News that the singer is far from a lost cause: “What it will take for Amy to be clean and sober is to tackle the twin demons of the physical addiction of what she has become hooked on and the emotional issues that got her to the place she is today.”

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Like everyone else, when we saw the video of Amy Winehouse’s disastrous performance in Belgrade, Serbia, we were horrified. Just when things were starting to look up for the “Back to Black” singer, she managed to self-sabotage yet again, leading to canceled tour dates in Istanbul and Athens and buzz that her 12-date comeback tour may be scrapped entirely.

In video from the concert, Winehouse stumbles around the stage unable to remember the lyrics to her own songs. Barely able to stand, she brought a member of her band to the mic to sing “Valerie.” It was tragic.

The performance stands in marked contrast to one she put on just six days earlier at London’s 100 Club. According to sources at that show, “Amy was on fantastic form. She looked and sounded great. It was like one of her old performances.” The London show was her first live performance since a string of mostly well-received dates in Brazil earlier this year.

So what gives? Read on for our theory (and it’s just that – we blog, we do not know or treat Winehouse nor are we featured on Intervention). Read More...

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