Vintage Inspiration: Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was a British singer and song writer whose career and life was frought with drama and soul. Her look helped relaunch a love for vintage looks mixed with modern style. Winehouse favored looks from girl groups like The Ronettes. Her beehive hairdo and wild winger liner may look like a parody of the fashions of the 1960's but Winehouse was spot on. 

Personally, she was always an inspiration style wise. She wore what she liked and didn't care about what other people thought....Rolling Stone's editor Joe Levy tried to sum up her eclectic style:

"Just as her best music drew on sampling — assembling sonic licks and stylistic fragments borrowed from Motown, Stax, punk and early hip-hop – her personal style was also a knowing collage. There was a certain moment in the '90s when, if you were headed downtown and turned left, every girl looked like Bettie Page. But they did not do what Winehouse did, mixing Bettie Page with Brigitte Bardot and adding that little bit of Ronnie Spector."

Want to learn more about Amy's iconic look? Take a peek at this make up tutorial done by Valli O'Reilly who knew Amy personally and worked as her makeup artist. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Lq2RNABTc

Want to learn more about Amy Winehouse check out her website here: http://www.amywinehouse.com/

Rococo Punk! AKA SUPER VINTAGE FUN TIMES

So this past weekend at #ConCarolinas some friends and I decided to go dressed in Rococo Punk! For those of you who don't know that is when you blend the fashion of the Rococo (sometimes called the Georgian Period) with the hard hitting statements of Punk Rock....This look was very popular once super rocker Adam Ant shot several of his videos in the Rococo Punk style!

SWOON

More recently however, the look gained even more popularity when the 2006 Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette came out! What a feast for the eyes! This sympathetic look at the life of the doomed French queen was over laid by punk and new wave music ( check out the soundtrack here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_(soundtrack) )

The cast posing for a shoot in Vanity Fair Magazine

You can read a great article on the rise of Rococo Punk here: https://steampunk.wonderhowto.com/news/alternate-history-steampunk-rococopunk-0141206/

So ready to see my look? I titled this one Red, White, and F*ck You!

First let me take a selfie!

Everything you are seeing I made myself!

Photo credit to the great Lisa Margolis

Fun times with the Rococo Punk Tribe!

All in all a HELLA fun weekend! Stay tuned!