Back to black: Amy for Fred Perry

MANILA, Philippines - “We had three major design meetings where she was closely involved in product style selection and the application of fabric, color, and styling details,” said Fred Perry’s marketing team. Before her death, acclaimed soul singer Amy Winehouse collaborated on a 17-piece collection with the label. For Autumn/Winter 2012, Fred Perry has recreated key styles from the Amy Winehouse collaboration.

In turn, the brand has promised to make a seasonal contribution from this collection to the Amy Winehouse Foundation: a charity established in the late singer’s name to help struggling youth.

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Some proceeds of the A/W 2012 line will be donated to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, a charity for the struggling youth.

Born Amy Jade Winehouse on Sept. 14, 1983 in Southgate, London, the tattooed and beehived Ronette out of time we’d come to know wouldn’t appear until 2006’s Grammy-winning “Back to Black,” her second album and an album for the ages — a towering set of sometimes wry, always epic breakup songs, punctured with brave postmodern hip-hop touches and pummeled through Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound. A student of the ‘70s school of confessional songwriting, she always shined brightest when she was turning tragedy into great art.

Maybe nothing that magical could last forever. On July 23, 2011, the drinks killed her, succumbing to accidental alcohol poisoning at the age of 27. There was drink, there were drugs, but there were also songs. When the posthumous odds-and-ends album “Lioness: Hidden Treasures” was released in December 2011, it entered at the top of the UK Albums Chart, selling 194,000 copies. Today, “Back to Black” is the UK’s best-selling album released in the 21st century.

The late Amy Winehouse comes alive through her clothes and most especially, the music.

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In the Philippines, Fred Perry has stores in Greenbelt 5, Rockwell Power Plant, Mega Atrium, and Bonifacio High Street.