Italian designer Riccardo Tisci faced a conundrum when he joined the Givenchy fashion house three years ago. Though critics were lukewarm at first, he has succeeded where his predecessors failed with a mixture of strict tailoring and Gothic romanticism.

In his show on Wednesday, Tisci piled pounds of silver crosses and chains onto slim black coats and embroidered a silver ex-voto heart on a sober-yet-sexy black satin blouse.

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Say what you will about Amy Winehouse but you can't deny the girl has a style. It may not suit your own tastes but it's undeniably a style. The Winehouse style. And now the troubled singer is parlaying that look into a new line of beauty products that will include hair sprays (naturally) and eyeliners.

The Sun newspaper quotes an anonymous friend of Winehouse’s as saying: “Amy’s style has been copied by girls around the country and ther ...