Jean Paul Gaultier has been criticised by the family of Amy Winehouse for sending lookalikes of the late singer down the runway at his spring/summer haute couture show.

Models with beehives, fishnets and cigarettes casually draped in their fingers paraded down the catwalk in an apparent homage to Amy's unique style.

Amy's father, Mitch Winehouse, told the Sun he found the show in "very poor taste" and that his family was "insulted" by the production.

View the images from Jean Paul Gaultier's S/S couture show

"We're still grieving for her loss, and we've had a difficult week with the six-month anniversary of Amy's death," said Mitch. "To see her image lifted wholesale to sell clothes was a wrench we were not expecting or consulted on."

Amy’s father continued to say that while the Winehouse family was proud of her influence on the fashion world, the Gaultier show had portrayed the dark side of the singer and "glamourised the more upsetting times in her life."

But it seems the family may have missed the point of Gaultier's show, with the designer explaining just last week that his show was a "tribute" to the fallen singer.

"It is very joyous," Gaultier told the New York Times after the show. "To me the scandal is that no fashion magazine did an Amy Winehouse cover. She was so exceptional in her style; how she held her body; the way she dressed, mixing pieces from different decades."