I met Amy Winehouse on her first ever shoot, before the debut album, Frank. She was only 17. We were around Portobello Market with the photographer Phil Knott, and she was wearing trilbies and flared trousers and scarves around her hair. Amy was just this feisty, gorgeous, young voluptuous woman and I was like: ‘Wow, check her out.’
At the end of the day, we went back to Phil's studio. We were chatting in the dressing room, and she goes ‘Oi, Trace — can you give me a beehive?’ I said ‘oh my god, sit down’, backcombed her hair into this beehive and tied a little scarf that she had around it. She loved her scarves when she was a teenager and was really into that cool, beatnik thing. I remember looking at Amy thinking: ‘This is her.’
