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Amy Winehouse at the Grammy Museum

The Grammy Museum is hosting an online exhibition of singer-diva Amy Winehouse's fashion, a show which was forced to close early due to Covid. I missed Winehouse when she was in full flower but a recent French podcast Une Vie Une Oeuvre made her life so compelling to me (if you understand any French at all you should subscribe to this podcast, it has a wide range of pop culture and high culture personages with very good interviews). So now this exhibition at the Grammy museum is an extra bonus. Winehouse (like Edie Sedgwick) flamed brightly and then disintegrated into a sea of drugs and self doubt. But her ambitious music is strong and haunting. As with her music which often summoned the Cool School of Sinatra and Dinah Washington, her fashion choices designed by Naomi Parry harkened back to Hollywood in the forties, or even of British tennis great Fred Perry. Check out the shoes! If you go to their website, you can see the virtual exhibition. Image courtesy of The Grammy Museum.