Amy Winehouse - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
‘Amy’ Winehouse Documentary Trailer
Four years after her untimely death, Amy Winehouse is being remembered with Amy, a two-hour documentary which arrives in British theaters July 3, and will receive a U.S. release in the summer. It's directed by BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapaida (best known for Senna, 2011's documentary about the late Brazillian racing champion Ayrton Senna), and tells Winehouse's story through extensive footage compiled from various points in her life.
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Watch First Official Clip From Amy Winehouse Documentary
Despite heavy criticism from Amy Winehouse's family, the documentary Amy is set to premiere this summer. The first official clip from the film has surfaced, and it makes good on the promise that Amy will boast plenty of intimate, never-before-seen footage along with new interviews from many of the late singer's friends and associates.
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Truth is, I’m a fucking romantic. I’m difficult but I promise - I’m not boring.
Amy Winehouse, GQ Magazine
Pete Doherty On Heroin, Life in Paris And His New Film
In a Paris attic apartment decorated like a 19th-century dandy's den, a rottweiler snores on a velvet couch and dozens of candles give out a half-light. Pete Doherty kicks an apple core round the living room rug and chats in broken French to a friend on his cracked iPhone. Balzac novels are stacked high on the window ledge.
Lana Del Rey on the Cover of T Magazine
Lana Del Rey covers T's spring fashion issue, shot by Terry Richardson, and the accompanying story defines her as "the perfect antidote to Rihanna-Gaga overload — dare we say, a skinnier Adele, a more stable Amy Winehouse?" Whatever we're supposed to infer from that is unclear (does the world need a skinnier Adele?), but the article does attempt to lay to rest rumors about Del Rey's large, enhanced-looking lips.
Backstage at Haute Couture Spring 2012
Haute couture takes the escapism and fantasy of fashion, and then multiplies it by a million. The garments are true examples of craftsmanship and the runway presentations are productions, much like Broadway spectacles but with less show tunes and probably the same amount of sequins.
Giorgio Armani themed his show around metamorphosis, and especially the snake shedding its skin, so crocodile skin was key. Mesh, glistening fabrics and scale-like prints pointed to the reptillian. Christian Dior was ladylike and fifties-inspired, with full skirts, cinched waists and a soundtrack by Lana Del Rey.
Jean Paul Gaultier’s collection was inspired by Amy Winehouse, mimicking the late singer’s pin-up girl style with winged eyeliner and beehives. Models (including Andrej Pejic) wore veils and smoked cigarettes as a babershop quartet sang Winehouse’s songs. The show caused controversy (perhaps its main aim?), with Winehouse’s father telling The Sun that he thought it was in bad taste.
Valentino presented a collection of beautiful, 100% dreamy dresses as layer upon layer of delicate organza floated down the runway. Wallpaper-y florals and high necklines gave off a Little House on the Prairie cross Virgin Suicides vibe, with the intricate beading and sequin-work being a standout feature of the collection.
The Versace couture collection was quintessential Versace, following the ‘more is more’ mantra. These gowns were made with the red carpet in mind – the runway itself even replicated a red carpet, with VIP guests separated from the plebs (read: slightly-less VIP guests) by a red velvet rope. Expect to see some of this collection worn by celebrities at the imminent Oscars.
Jean Paul Gaultier recently debuted his Spring 2012 collection
Jean Paul Gaultier recently debuted his Spring 2012 collection. His inspiration? Deceased songstress Amy Winehouse. He enlisted the help of models like Karlie Kloss, Joan Smalls, Arizona Muse, Tallulah Morton, and even androgynous male model Andrej Pejic. Models had their hair done up in the late singer's iconic beehive, had a beauty mark added, and some even made their down the runway with a cigarette as an accessory.
Lioness: Hidden Treasure
This is a sad record. A grab bag of outtakes, unreleased tracks, demos, covers and song sketches, these recordings feel like a gut punch. They remind you, first and foremost, of that voice – one of pop music's most instantly recognizable vocal imprints, a sound that leapt out of your speakers and seized you by the ears. Here, as always, Winehouse's singing is both raggedy and dramatic, winking and insouciant, full of high drama and a breezy sense of play – sometimes all those things at the same time.
Listen to the deliciously easeful crooning in "Our Day Will Come," a reggae-fied reworking of a doo-wop chestnut, recorded in 2002. Or listen to "Half Time," also from 2002, a sultry ode to the pleasure of sultry music – "When the beat kicks in/Everything falls into place" – with Winehouse conjuring a Sunday-noontime-light-slanting-through-the-blinds vibe over a luscious 1970s jazz-soul groove. Then there’s "Between the Cheats," from Winehouse's aborted attempts at recording a third album with producer Salaam Remi in 2008. An old-fashioned 6/8 R&B ballad, it perfectly distills Winehouse's marriage of classic soul style and goth-barfly smuttiness.
Sadder still, what's not here. Winehouse was a talent in formation. Her debut album, the jazzy retro-soul Frank (2003), was promising but flawed: her appealing mix of London homegirl brassiness and classic-pop chops was undermined by her overly mannered singing and an unsure songwriting touch. On Back to Black (2006), she turned from sass to melodrama – with help from producer Mark Ronson and a pile of old Shangri-Las 45s – and recorded wrenchingly beautiful (and funny, and potty-mouthed) songs about love and addiction. But she was still finding her feet as a singer and a songwriter when she died. On Lioness, there are charming reminders of what was: the stirringly stately "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" cover, an alternate version of "Tears Dry." But it's hard not to believe that Winehouse died with her best work in front of her. We'll never hear those records, and the silence is deafening.
Listen to "Between The Cheats"
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