Amy Winehouse with dad Mitch Winehouse at the recent Ivor Novello Awards in the UK.
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Love it or loathe it, the beehive on Amy Winehouse is practically a personality
unto itself. Mile-high and messy, coiffed and chic, it’s so outrageous
it shirks any definition you try and pin on it.
But the question
does remain: is this high art or just plain hideous?
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HOT: THE CASE FOR HIGH ART
You have to admit, it’s unique and hard to miss in a crowd.
You also have to admit it’s very Marge Simpson, and anyone who a) takes Marge as a style icon and b) has the guts to leave the house in a hairstyle that sky-scraping deserves applause – not perhaps because it looks good but more so that it must be a daily achievement to continually dodge doorways and low-lying lamps.
With a hot career, an 'interesting' personal life and something like 90 paparazzi chasing her daily and wondering what she puts in her trash, Amy still manages to prioritise what looks like one of the world’s most elaborate do’s. Kudos to that.
She’s the only celeb really recreating the early sixties vibe at all. What with all the easy-on-the-eye Kate, Sienna and Gwyneth looks, and the primped and preened Katie and Posh freezes, Amy's hair-sprayed giant of a concoction stands out a mile – and is matched by her her oh-so-now fashion threads.
NOT: THE CASE FOR PLAIN UGLY
Her hair is bigger than her head, giving rise to some concern that there may be something living in it (aka that poor fellow in that Harry Potter book) or that it’s not really hair at all but a large woolly cardigan that lost its way.
Her hair is so big it talks louder than anyone in the room, and perhaps that’s a bit, you know, attention-seeking. Or odd, depending how you see it.
Her hair is bigger than her head. ’Nuff said.
THE CONCLUSION
As Caithlin Moran from The Times Online put it, “It has become apparent that Amy is the first superstar to use her hair as her primary means of communication. We'll know that rehab has finally worked when she loses the goth flump on her head."
As I'd put it though, anyone with the chutzpah to pour sixties styling, '80s attitude and a colossal nod to Marge Simpson into one instantly recognisable look that is so her own deserves a Dolly Parton-style high-hair salute.
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