PC Williams is the costume designer responsible for the iconic looks in the highly anticipated Back to Black: The Amy Winehouse Story. The new film tells the story of the all-too-short life of the huge star who, despite the tragedy, also "got" to enter the club The 27th.
Williams is a costume designer and stylist, winner of an APTA award (the British equivalent of the Oscars) for designing authentic looks for the stars of the sitcom series "We Are Lady Parts." From a young age, she was keen to find a career that would allow her to tell stories. "The late Amy and I are about the same age (if she were alive today) and in my youth, I used to hang out in Camden in London about the same time she was there too. So once I got the job, it was like a dream come true," she says. "I could dress the actress Marissa Abella, who played her in a corset, combine skinny jeans and sign the look with ballerina shoes." "The vintage aesthetic was always there, but she made it more 'London' - a pin-up style of the 60s," says director Sam Williams. Williams added cute but slightly worn ballerina shoes, while in the original, the haunted Winehouse was barefoot on the street. He also replaced the clump of yellow hair that "decorated" her mane of black hair with a spotted scarf that was tied to the actress's head. "It's a story about Amy but through her own eyes. So if, for example, we go back to that memorable sequin dress, this piece was perfect as it is," Williams adds. "The implied interpretations I noticed in some of the looks, is that coming from the stylist in you? Perhaps a desire to weave a little of your sense of style and aesthetics into the story?" he adds. "I wanted to refine that experience - so we thought about how the interaction on stage between the lights and the dress would look, and so we did."