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# Met Ball Fug Carpet: Florence Welch
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/met-ball-fug-carpet-florence-welch-05-2012/
- Published: 2012-05-08T18:00:11.000Z
- Updated: 2018-02-01T03:10:03.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Awards & Galas, Met Ball, Met Ball 2012, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:31

Okay, okay, I know this is very Florence Welch, but I have to question whether in twenty years Florence Welch is going to be so thrilled that she's created a legacy in which this outfit is synonymous with her name.

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2012/05/144002495.jpg "Florence Welch")](https://gofugyourself.com/met-ball-fug-carpet-florence-welch-05-2012/schiaparelli-and-prada-impossible-conversations-costume-institute-gala-21?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

It is INSANE. Jessica said it reminds her of a dust bunny; I would amend that to some sort of militant, possibly weaponized dust bunny from a planet of angry discarded Swiffer cloths eager to exact allergenic revenge on humankind.

But it also reminds me of something else:

[![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2012/05/stanfordtree.jpg "Stanford Tree")](https://gofugyourself.com/met-ball-fug-carpet-florence-welch-05-2012/stanfordtree?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

This is the Stanford mascot: a tree. It's a different tree every year, but it always looks very swirly, and on football Saturdays I always see it bopping along and twirling on the sidelines looking drunk like it's Arbor Day. So when Florence did this...

[![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2012/05/144009860.jpg "Florence Welch")](https://gofugyourself.com/met-ball-fug-carpet-florence-welch-05-2012/schiaparelli-and-prada-impossible-conversations-costume-institute-gala-20?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

... I had flashbacks to drinking very cheap beer on a very cold day in a very full parking lot, screaming my support for my football team. Which made me happy, especially because that mental leap doesn't come often when you're covering the fashion Oscars. So I still think this is hideous -- gloriously hideous -- but now that I'm imagining it with Googly eyes and a cartoonish mouth glued to her front, I'm elated.

\[Photos: Getty\]