Earlier this week Jean Paul Gaultier presented his spring 2012 couture collection in Paris. The runway show was an ode to Amy Winehouse and the fitted pencil skirts and corset dresses were an obvious nod to Amy's love for Fifties fashion. Today the late singer's father, Mitch Winehouse, is speaking out and is telling the press that the runway show was terribly upsetting for him and his family.

Jean Paul Gaultier's couture collection hit the Paris runway on Wednesday, just two days after the half-year anniversary of Amy's death. While Gaultier admitted that he had never actually met the singer, he explained that their "styles were similar" and the runway extravaganza was intended to be a "joyous" tribute to her iconic sense of style.

Mitch fired back and told British newspaper The Sun:

"The family were upset to see those pictures, they were a total shock. We're still grieving for her loss, and we've had a difficult week with the six month anniversary of Amy's death. To see her image lifted wholesale to sell clothes was a wrench we were not expecting or consulted on. We're proud of her influence on fashion but find black veils on models, smoking cigarettes with a barbershop quartet singing her music in bad taste. It portrays a view of Amy when she was not at her best and glamorises some of the more upsetting times in her life. That's upsetting for her family."

Mitch isn't the only person speaking out against Jean Paul Gaultier's Amy Winehouse tribute. Kelly Osbourne hit Twitter insisting that her late friend would have disapproved and called the French designer's tribute "lucratively selfish and distasteful".

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