
“Ah, there she is,” she says, pointing to an image of a little girl with chubby cheeks. You can see the superstar she’s turning into – although it is a wall of family photos that makes her mother stop. The show begins with professional pictures of the then 21-year-old Amy Winehouse shot in her north London teenage bedroom – in all of them, she exudes that particular unkempt pin-up aesthetic, strutting around in low-slung leopard print trousers, little crop tops and tight-fitting miniskirts.

Her bedroom never looked like that she was so scruffy.” Janis Winehouse-Collins arrives at the Design Museum at the same time as I do, and looks around a room dedicated to her daughter’s life with a smile, while shaking her head at the neat piles of records and images of immaculate rails of colourful clothing.
