![]() But today, she's been pushed well above the six-foot mark by these sparkly chair legs trussed to her feet, and fittingly for an artist who records under the name Florence and the Machine, she has to tackle the stairs with a series of mechanical swivels, as if she's a robot fresh off the production line, still learning to walk. Distinctive in most elements of her appearance – skin milky white and hair always washed some conflicting shade of red – Welch is not especially tall. The giant diamanté heels she is wearing look, to my eyes, not just painful but potentially lethal. ![]() Today, descending the central staircase at Observer headquarters, I can see the 25-year-old has entirely failed to follow her old edict. ![]() Appreciate your feet, it ordered in boxy handwriting – a bit of self-counsel from an accident-prone girl who'd too often gone to casualty bleeding into her shoes. O f the "10 Florence commandments" once pinned to the wall of a recording studio by Florence Welch (this list of rules-for-living drawn up by the musician when she was still a precocious teen, teasing out demos), number eight was pragmatic.
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