Is Amy Winehouse Staging a Comeback?

Polly Vernon of Harper’s Bazaar interviewed Amy Winehouse about her new apparel collection that she co-designed with Fred Perry and apparently Winehouse was unable to answer any of the questions coherently.

Tell me about the Fred Perry project. It seems like you really knew what you wanted from it.

“Ve’y much so.Ve’y much so. And that’s been the whole thing. We’ve pretty much done like up to autumn/winter 2012, and I’m like, ‘Have we?’ Yeah!”

It was easy?

“Mmm-hmmm. Yeah, yeah, it was not hard at all, not hard at all, because, like …”

Someone hands her a crayfish salad and removes the empty soup pot from her hands. “Thank you, baby!” she says to the provider of the salad. She turns back to me.

“I knew exactly what I wanted. And I love Fred Perry so much. I was honored that they would even, like, ‘Do you want to come and do a line?’ Me? Like, me?” She stabs a finger into her chest. “Yeah!” she adds.

Okay. Do you consider yourself a style icon?

“A style, like, what?”

A style icon, I repeat.

“Style, like … ?”

Icon!

“No, of course not!”

But you are! People have altered the way they look as a consequence of your look. Tattoos have gained new currency; heavy eyeliner is widely imitated.

“Uh-huh. I don’t think that’s true. I just dress like … I’m an old black man. Sorry!” she says. “Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.”

All of that talent is clearly being wasted on drugs and booze. I hope she pulls it together soon and releases another album, because Back to Black was an instant classic.   

Words by Womenswear Editor James Michael White for Bagpoor.com

Image courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar