4. Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse will be remembered for many things; her powerful voice, being a gifted songwriter, her outspoken nature and a chaotic and destructive personal life. It is also impossible to overlook her place as a style icon and the influence that she has had on the fashion world. Amy Winehouses unique and instantly recognisable image; combining a huge, messy beehive hairstyle, thick black eye-liner, tattooed arms, tiny revealing dresses and skyscraper heels (on stage) and Fred Perry polos, skinny jeans and pumps (off stage), was unlike anything the mainstream music world had seen before. Drawing influence from female singers of the 1960s with beehives and cocktail dresses, Amy managed to give this retro style a gritty revamp for the twenty-first century, and it somehow seemed so perfectly suited to her big personality and even bigger voice. Her style, like many of the best fashion icons, had the brilliant quality of being largely inimitable who else could pull that off so well? yet with aspects that were soon being emulated on the runways and streets alike. An all-encompassing music icon, her influence will continue to be seen in the fashion industry for years to come.