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Amy Winehouse was known for her unique personal style, which she planned to share with others through a collection she was creating with British sportswear brand Fred Perry. And despite her unexpected death a few weeks ago, Fred Perry plans to honor her legacy with the sales of her unfinished collections.

According to WWD, after speaking with Winehouse’s family, the brand decided to release the fall 2011 and wholesale the spring 2012 Amy Winehouse for Fred Perry collections. 
Immediately following the singer’s untimely death, the lines were put on hold. “When Fred Perry came to us to ask what we would like to do with the new collection it was natural to continue,” the late singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse, said in a statement. “Amy loved working on both collections, and would want them to be made available.”
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Controversy seems to follow Amy Winehouse wherever she goes, but her beehive hair, heavy eyeliner and widespread tattoos have also made her into something of a style icon, albeit an unwilling one. “A style, like, what?” the singer turned designer says in the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar when asked if she considers herself a fashion icon. “No, of course not!” she tells the magazine. “I just dress like…I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.” But when it comes to her own sources of fashion inspiration, Winehouse, shot by rock star turned photographer Bryan Adams in a dress from her sportswear collection for British brand Fred Perry, has a hard time deciding. “Elizabeth Taylor,” she says, before changing her mind. “Not really. She had purple eyes. That’s weird.” But despite her indecision, Winehouse says she was quite certain when it came to working with British label Fred Perry on a fashion line. “I knew exactly what I wanted,” she said of her vision for the collaboration. “And I love Fred Perry so much. I was honored,” Amy says, before admitting that when the fashion house asked for her hand in the 17-piece clothing and accessories collection, she could hardly believe they picked her. To read Amy’s full interview, visit harpersbazaar.com/amywinehouse or pick up the November issue, on newsstands Oct. 26. –Gillian Koenig; Jessie Goldberg
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As she prepares to show off her new range of clothing designed for British sportswear firm Fred Perry, Amy Winehouse says she’s been drug-free for three years and is in a better place. “I’m much healthier now,” she tells the U.K. edition of Glamour in its November issue. “I used to use drugs and I haven’t used drugs in almost three years. I literally woke up one day and was like, ‘I don’t want to do this any more.’” While her private life around her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil was in such turmoil, she says she focused on her fashion line. “I went through a lot of trouble with my ex-husband, so I had such a long time to think about the collection.” The divorced singer has drawn on her own tastes to design the chic line—and she models it for singer-turned-photographer Bryan Adams in the magazine. “I like ’40s and ’50s stuff. I played Rizzo in Grease when I was a kid at school, and I’ve always worn bowling shirts and things like classic trenchcoats.” The collection starts at a size six (U.K.) because she wanted to be able to wear them. “When I started eating right, I lost quite a lot of weight,” she explains. “Everyone thinks it was because of my lifestyle. It was because my eating habits got a lot better and I came to my natural weight. I’m not really skinny but I’m tiny and I couldn’t really get anything because they didn’t do a size six.” –Simon Perry

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