Of all the women doing the boho look, I often think Florence Welch is one of the few ladies to do it properly, and to look good while boho-ing. But Flo’s Grammy look was like When Boho Goes Bad. She wore this Gucci gown in candy-pink, with a dust ruffle and weird, childish appliques. This was just… not good. And you guys know I’m a BIG fan, right? I am. I love the latest album and her voice is amazing. But she needs to change up her hair, because the shaggy-dog bangs/fringe is terrible. She also needs to start taking better care of herself in general. Last thing: why didn’t Florence + the Machine perform last night?!
Speaking of trying out something that didn’t work, here’s Janelle Monae in Jean Paul Gaultier. I get that Janelle’s style is quirky/fun/avant-garde, but this look reeks of desperation more than anything else.
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She looks like she just got out of bed. The dress looks like a night gown, she has bad bed hair and what looks like no makeup.
Oh no my faves!!!! Who have you pissed?!? Your style team obvi but whyyyyyyyyy
I mean Florence looks bad and This Isnt a woman that reads “young” to begin with but this is Baaaaddd
I like her makeup. Can’t defend the outfit, though. Is that skirt made of straw?
MTE, two of my faves, style-wise, and they both look like this? It’s like someone told Florence, “Yes, you can wear THIS pink dress because it is the same exact color as Molly Ringwald’s prom dress in Pretty In Pink–redhead approved!” And why does Janelle look like she’s appearing in a 1992 ad for Exclamation! perfume??
OMG Exclamation! Perfect.
Yes I love Florence too but girlfriend, your bad habits are showing on the outside. BIG time.
Also, that dress.. starting with the colour. Was just a big no.
Janelle, I like her sometimes but she does give that “try-hard” vibe sometimes. I love what she stands for and the message she’s sending with the whole black and white thing, but I think in the end we just don’t see enough music from her.
She’s stunning, still, but this outfit is a big no.
What bad habits?
Drinking. But Now I see she declares she stopped drinking while doing this new album, so, good for her. Still hard to believe she’s 29.
she probably drinks as much as young brits do. the drinking thing is totally blown out of proportion outside britain.
29?? Wow
I thought she was over 40.
Oh stop she doesn’t look over 30. 40 is reaching. She’s just pale with a sullen face.
Yes @Ell true and she says so, but she even admits to drinking out of habit because that’s what she did through college and all that, but she realized she needed to stop drinking before performances among other times when she broke her foot. So, my take is she realizes it was not doing her any good.
ell, I don’t hink it’s blown out of proportion. I was actually pretty shocked seeing the drinking culture when I moved to the UK- and I’m from Germany!
Nope she doesn’t look 30. The pale face has nothing to do.
I am 30 and I find it hard to believe that we are the same age.
She looks middle age.
That’s a good question: why didn’t Florence perform? And why didn’t she win anything? I just don’t get it.
I feel like she does not separate her red carpet looks from her stage outfits. This dress would fit a stage better than a red carpet.
Florence’s hair color looks pretty with the dress color. If I taught kindergarten and wanted to dress like a fairy godmother I might borrow that dress, though.
oh Janelle! her looks via her instagram are so much better and more polished than this. I am totally digging her ability to keep it usually black white and one color, but this is not great.
I dislike Florence tons, she always wears bad stuff, I change the station when I hear her voice, I know it’s ‘good’ technically, but I just don’t like to listen to it :/
I think the design of Florence’s dress is rather fabulous and so perfect for the Grammy’s.
Gucci (Alessandro Michele, I think) broke so many rules and somehow it works brilliantly. They took the 1975 prairie dress silhouette and added some really interesting intreprations with the sequin appliques. The sequin stars remind me of Elvis Presley’s cape costume and Grand Ol Opry stars like Tammy Wynette. The ribbon motif beading at the waist uses really saturated colors that I’d expect to see in the sequin stars instead. Kudos to House of Gucci for messing with my expectations about 70s fashion.
yeah i get what you’re saying. in the context of the brits this dress actually worked perfectly. alessandro michele’s stuff is imo art, truly wonderful. even the odd dresses are so beautiful to look at.
I don’t even think it’s beautiful. I think it’s a really well executed design for a creative awards event.
ETA – I didn’t know anything about her so I just watched part of Delilah on youtube and this dress is perfect for her.
Yeah, I get 70’s Nashville more than “boho” from this look too. Definitely more of a country/cowgirl bedazzled vibe than Woodstock or whatever. In terms of a rock star “look” it’s referencing something musical as opposed to runway fashion, she’s fully clothed (wow, a modern pop star, revolutionary!) at the Grammy’s, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing 🙂
I quite like Florence’s dress as well, there’s a childlike fantasy vibe to it that rubs me the right way. Her hair just seems too heavy for the dress.
Janelle’s I love unabashedly. It’s the Grammies, why not go big? Give us spectacle! She went all the way with this, owns the whole looks from top to toe.
I love it too. It’s pretty and interesting. Somehow reminds me of faerie costume in 20s silent film. I think people should always wear costumes — way more fun.
I get that celebrities sometimes wear ugly outfits just because they’re free and have a big designer label attached to them. But my question is – what’s wrong with whoever is designing for Gucci? This is not the only similarly hideous dress from that collection. Nicole Kidman wore an even worse one a few weeks ago and they both looked like something a little child would design, not someone who is seemingly a fashion guru.
I LOVE the Gucci. It’s so much fun.
what do you mean taking care of herself generally? she looks healthy to me? am i missing something? i don’t love her hair either, as i hate bangs and it’s imo too long now (wonder if it’s extensions?). as for the dress… she was named one of the brand spokesperson for gucci a few days ago, and raved about the dress. i like eclectic and different when it comes to fashion, but even i are not convinced. the cut of the dress is really beautiful, but the whole pink with the drawings (which are actually lovely and one of the things i adore of new gucci) is imo a bit too much. a different shade of pink or a lilac would have maybe worked better.
I like Flo but her look is bad here..
“She needs t start taking care of herself in general”…am i missing something?
I liked it, but only on her. I recognized her in it right away, even though I’m not too familiar with her. It’s like Swinton in a “Swinton”: it’s her thing.
I don’t get the dress either.
But enough with the bangs hate.
Her bangs are fine.
She MAY be one of those ladies (like me) who absolutely needs them.
And why in gods name is Taylor Swift more popular than Flo?
I don’t get people.
Crawling back under my rock now…..
I don’t get the bangs hate either. I think if her hair was cut 4+ inches it would have looked good it just looks stringy at the end. I like the beach waves. The dress isn’t my favorite, but certainly not the worse of the night, and I have seen her in better outfits.
Why is Taylor more popular than Flo, well Taylor has the kids, and is basically bubble gum fun. Flo takes a bit more thinking and not really a kid thing.
Great maternity gown!
Florence does NOT look good in pink, and all the little doodads make it look like a nightgown.
They are both so talented and amazing I don’t care. Shame they didn’t perform. I think either of them would’ve made pretty fantastic Bowie tributes.
It saddens me so many people label Janelle as “desperate” and “try-hard” because she’s quirky. She’s very low-key about her private life, and if she played the showbizz game whoring herself out she could be big. But she doesn’t. This really is just her style.
Thank you for this comment. Where I live, Janelle isn’t happening at all, and I asked myself why that is. I had never thought of it that way, but now I realize that I may have been looking at her career the wrong way. I didn’t know anything about her PR game, so thanks for shedding light on that. I have a ton of respect for artists who don’t lose themselves trying to pull every string possible and who create their own paths instead. Plus, I’ve always liked her fashion choices. This outfit is way too busy for my taste, but I still kind of like it. Funny to think that this huge skirt is actually the quiet spot in this ensemble. 🙂 She looks comfortable with her choice.
A Florence performance would have KILLED me. Why is she always nominated but never wins? All of her albums have been award worthy.
That pink dress is similar to one my mother had to wear in a 70’s wedding. She was so mortified that when she got home, she took it off and gave it to us little girls and said “do whatever you want with this”. I wore it to dinner and made everyone call me Lady Mick Beth and then I fell down the stairs and broke my arm in two places. My dad threw it out. That dress was my Annabelle. Flashbacks.
Awesome story!
this is a great story, i laughed out loud.
Wasn’t there a super-cute commercial on recently starring Janelle for Covergirl? Sometimes I think I dreamed it, since only saw it once( maybe during GG?). Anyway, she was so cute and vibrant in it. This outfit just overwhelms her.
Love Florence- and this shade looks good on her, but it looks like it escaped from the Dr Strange set.
Florence’s dress isn’t too bad for her style, IMO, just not a good color for her. The comment about her “taking care of herself” is kind of cruel, though. Welch has never been an exceptionally attractive woman, and she doesn’t need to be. She’s immensely talented – which is enough on its own. It’s not a woman’s job to look sexually attractive.
Thank you. While I do think she’s pretty attractive anyway, I agree with you on everything else.
Why desperation? I think Janelle’s look was great, over the top but that was its purpose.
Florence always wears drapery gone bad style dresses and they are awful and I love it. I don’t know if it is intentional, but it always seems like she is wearing these things tongue in cheek.
I love Florence Welsh’s dress. I don’t think a lot of people could pull this off. To me, she absolutely does. I also like the hair. This is her, this is her style, and I’m fine with it.
…she looked a ton better in the trouser suit at an afterparty…janelle looks fantastic…my eyes and brain always appreciate an arty dresser…& much better than twigs…
I wish she’d sung Delilah at the Grammys. That’s an anthem and a half.