Florence Welch (the British singer who fronts Florence + the Machine), went for the unusual at last night’s Met Gala. She wore an extremely embroidered (flowers?), tiered, beige Alexander McQueen gown and accessorized with matching sandals with chunky heels and a matching clutch. Overall, the dress really swallows her up, but Florence is clearly having fun with it.
I have to admire Florence’s chutzpah on the red carpet. Still, this dress looks like an upside-down lampshade, and I’m feeling terrible hints of Marchesa in the upper bodice area. That transparent stuff around the boobs? Not flattering at all.
For such a massive and complicated dress, Florence did well by styling her hair with a simple, braided updo that aims to add some much needed balance to the overall picture which is … a fluffy lampshade.
Florence’s makeup appears about the same as it usually does — moderate eyeliner, harsh blush, dark red lips, and pale foundation. This look is part of her image, but she could’ve gone a bit softer for the occasion.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News
Still can’t believe that this chick is only 25 years old
Yeah….. I refuse to believe that as well. The dress is ok. There were better dresses that Sarah could have chosen for Florence. I guess Sarah wanted to focus solely on Cate and let Florence have whatever she wanted.
WHAT!!! I would have guessed early 40s! Her makeup is terrible.
I don’t even want to mention the dress as its clearly heinous but I just can’t believe this exists. Whoever designed that should never be allowed to dress someone again!
25! What?!?!?!?!?! I would have guessed 45, but never 25 or even 35. Also, I think her makeup is by far the worse part of this look, it looks like Halloween ghost makeup.Florence, Carey Mulligan, Dunst and Beyonce have been the worst of the worst for me with this GALA.
@Katren – i guess McQueen better shut up shop then.
@LAK yep guess so!
HA! Reallly?! I thought she was late 40s. Holy crap.
OMG! I am shocked. I had no idea. She looks older than my 43 by a lot. 25?
Mind blown…
Of course, the first comment would be exactly what I was thinking. No way in hell is she in her 20s. I knew I couldn’t have been the only one thinking it.
Its a man that’s why she looks older and rough. Men who want to be females will always look rough and slightly older
I KNOW! She looks way older than 25 but I adore her music 🙂
25? WOOW! It thought mid-40ies, and I’m not kidding or trying to be mean. wth.. didn’t see that one coming!
Yeah, there’s no way that she’s only 25. Even if she’s one of those people who looks older than they are, she’s still at least 30 and she looks 35+. She’s gorgeous, but no way is she 25.
This is exactly what I was thinking!
I saw florence live a few weeks ago…she is stunning in person. I feel she had also lost some weight in the past 2 years, so I wonder why she is covering up her amazing figure
I came on the comments just to write this but see you already have. I always thought she was *meh* looks wise, but seeing her at Coachella showed her true beauty. She was captivating.
Pictures not always do justice to beautiful women.
I often notice this with good looking people who have hard hedges in their faces. It can make for amazing videos but not so amazing pictures, unless the person learns how to work her/his angles.
Looks like Florence is in this category too. She’s so fun and unconventional, I love her!
I’m seeing her tonight! So excited! I hope she wears some crazy stuff like this on stage. LOL
Since it’s Florence Welch, she can pull this look off where it would be weird on anyone else. However, her make-up is horrible. Why did she put the pasty foundation on? Trying to look like a vampire? You can tell it’s make-up b/c the back of her neck and shoulders are diff. color.
See, I find that kind of unfair.
I was watching live yesterday, and when I saw her arrive, with all those flashlights making her hair look darker, I thought to myself “Oh no! Colbie Smolders (sp? chick from HIMYM) is again, very badly dressed. Turns out, it’s Florence, from Florence+The Machine, and apparently, it’s genius on her.
Even her “Heidi” braid is awful. Her shoes look like white beach summer sandals, that she super glued white ribbons on.
No! Surely you mean 45 years old??!!
Flo Is The Moth Queen!! I love it so Much
Besides the fact that she can do No Wrong to me, I also think The MET is not about what we would wear to the Golden Globes, This is about what supercrazy rich Fashion Types would Wear to one up each other+Excellent Tailoring, Esoteric, Line Crossing type of stuff
totally agree. this event begs for something more avant garde and orginal. so many confuse this with a time to wear something they couldnt fit into the limo at the VMA’s (bey-bey, im looking at you.0
the dress is true to her and this event. awesome.
YES You feel me!! in the spirit of what it is, and what is celebrating and Her IT WORKS
I don’t know why but it reminds me christmas tree.
A little bit. Reminds me of a wedding cake.
There is the chandelier!
She looks like a 40 year old tranny. Her face looks very masuculine to me.
on anyone else I would think its crap, but for her-I like it
change the bottom to pants it would totally be an outfit charro would wear. those sleeves+cape -ugh.
This is just awful. She’s right up there with Beyonce for one of the worst looks of the night. It’s doing horrible things to her boobs.
You call that “harsh blush?” LOL!
Regardless, she looks awful. Awful dress, awful styling.
She looks amazing. This is the MET! You need a costume, something with edge. And its Sarah Burton, McQueen isn’t going to give out something like this to anyone! I mean….there were a lot of budget celebrities there (*cough Jessica Alba and Eva Mendes) wearing bland dresses.
Anna Wintour would much rather something spectacular and edgy than something beautiful and bland.
If you’re gonna go for it, this is the way to do it! She wears it well.
This is pretty terrible.
Props for ‘different’ I guess, but this really doesn’t look nice.
I like the braid accent in her hair but the bangs don’t flatter.
I loved it! It’s the Met, the point of it is a crazy costume and she has it. I would spin in that all night long like a six year old.
It’s horrible, but it’s Florence.
This woman absolutely cannot be 25 years old. The dress is ten kinds of awful.
Florence is not nearly the fashion girl she thinks she is. I appreciate that she is never boring. But she’s also never lovely either. And unlike Tilda or even Bjork, I just don’t think she can pull off the looks she tries.
I like Florence’s music and her fashion risk-taking – but – this is awful – she reminds me of Zelda, the mom’s sister with spina bifida from Pet Sematary.
If she is 25, I got an island I can sell you in Kansas, for real.
She always brings to mind a 50 year old man in drag
Horrible dress.
Wiki says she was born in ’86…wow..I love her so but I never would have thought she was only 25. Thought she was mid-to-late 30s. I hate this dress but can I just say she’s amazing? She has the voice of an angel.
ugh.
i think it works on her. i’m not sure why, but it does. she is so talented, so maybe in my head that justifies the strange fashion choices. i’ve seen F&TM live twice and they kill.
We can finally put Bjork’s Swan Dress to rest because we have a new winner for WTF Were They Thinking Champ of all time?
This dress is awful. She could’ve scored points for makeup had she either chose the right shade of foundation or taken that uber pale shade all over the exposed areas of her body.
She looks like a hurricane of dandelion puff.
Florence is AMAZING… and this is the MET GALA people.
I would take a MILLION wtf? type dresses like this over another boring as hell, trying to look sexy fashion forward lame starlet dress like so many others.
Florence is an artist. And this is a performance. At a COSTUME GALA. This isn’t the Oscar or the Golden Globes and people seem to forget that.
There are so many shades of wrong with this entire ensemble.
I’m watching her streaming live from Radio City Music Hall on Fuse.
I see her and always think “it’s Florence… whatever.”
Everything this woman wears, wears her instead. Good God woman, take control of your clothing choices!
I’m not a big fan of these artistic-hip-indie chicks, but Florence’s AWESOME. At first I couldn’t believe either that she’s three years younger than me, for a long time I thought she was in her late 30’s (and that was a very polite guess).
But then I googled her older videos and I realized that she two-three years ago she’d looked MUCH more youthful. (Maybe because she’d had some baby fat on her face.)
http://youtu.be/WreXOF2Aqcc
http://youtu.be/I5US8KdeP6E
Unfortunately Florence has very sharp features, and they make her get old very quickly. But she’s still lovely and fresh when she’s singing live. 🙂
http://youtu.be/qNY2Ieb8mtk