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PARIS — Amy Winehouse. There is no mistaking the look of the first facsimile at Jean Paul Gaultier's couture show Wednesday, the beehive mane and thick eyeliner, black skirt and brassiere visible under a white top.

"Amy Winehouse was a spot on style icon," Gaultier told reporters backstage after a show conceived as a encomium to the soul singer, six months after her untimely death.

"What she stands for above all, is uniqueness. Both in music and the way she dressed, she opposite involved a great many influences" to create her style, he said.

Playing on the most recent star's style, rooted in the 1950s and 1960s, Gaultier sent out corsets -- a critical of his -- as well as bustiers and layered brassieres, mixing bold colours with coloured.

The French designer took care to keep his tribute subtle -- with nothing too unprejudiced -- and Winehouse's voice rang out only at the very end, blending with the sound of a cappella keep on stage.

Stars lined the front row, from the grande dames of French cinema Catherine Deneuve and Charlotte Rampling to the US rocker Beth Ditto, or RnB crooner Shy'm.

Source: AFP

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