The pre-Raphaelite Florence Welch

I found out some quotes about Florence Welch and the pre-raphaelite influence on her work, and I'll just share it with you =)

It’s pop music for Pre-Raphaelites, all lavishly romantic and heavy with dark symbolism. Welch has a thing for images of drowning, all consuming water, and ghosts. The better for an image of a post-modern pop Ophelia.

from Lady Garfunkel

Florence might want to have a little chat with her album cover designer, because he or she appears to have missed that particular meeting. Granted, the wild-flowers, flowing hair and general woodsiness of the first album cover are gone. But the new album cover bears more than a passing resemblance to a very famous Dante Gabriel Rossetti photograph of his lover Fanny Cornforth posing before a mirror in his London garden.Or is my Pre-Raphaelite fixation leading me to see Pre-Raphaelitism where there is none to be found?

from Pre-Rahaelites in the City

For the cover of “Lungs,” Welch donned a diaphanous 1920s-style Emma Cook dress made with fine chains that revealed a set of prosthetic leather lungs. For her “Rabbit Heart” video, the duo created an earthy “pre-Raphaelite” look inspired, in part, by the Czech film “Valerie and her Week of Wonders.”

from T magazine 

The mood of Florence Welch's second album is set by the cover, on which Welch appears to be posing for Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The mood of the disc inside, too, is decidedly pre-Raphaelite: a gothic fever dream of romance, striving for intensity without quite capturing it. 

 from The Guardian