Italian designer Donatella Versace poses on February 26, 2018, with editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour and cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Vatican Pontifical Council for Culture, at Rome's Palazzo Colonna (Getty Images)
Posted on 02/28/2018 5:49:11 PM PST by marshmallow
'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' opens May 10 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Italian designer Donatella Versace poses on February 26, 2018, with editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour and cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Vatican Pontifical Council for Culture, at Rome's Palazzo Colonna (Getty Images)
The Vatican, Versace and Vogue are joining forces to show off the Catholic influences in fashion.
The Vatican’s culture minister joined Donatella Versace and Vogue’s Anna Wintour on Monday to offer sneak peek of gorgeous Vatican liturgical vestments, jeweled miters and historic papal tiaras that will star in a spring exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
“Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” opens May 10 and represents the most extensive exhibit of the museum’s Costume Institute, officials said. It also represents the first time some of the Vatican’s most precious treasures from the Sistine Chapel sacristy are being exhibited outside the Vatican.
Along with the papal treasures, the Met show includes garments for more ordinary mortals by designers spanning Azzedine Alia to Vivienne Westwood, all set against the backdrop of the Met’s collection of medieval and religious artwork.
“Some might consider fashion to be an unfitting or unseemly medium by which to engage with ideas about the sacred or the divine,” curator Andrew Bolton told a crowd of Roman fashionistas and journalists. “But dress is central to any discussion about religion. It affirms religious allegiances and, by extension, it asserts religious differences.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Jesus must be weeping.
Just to provide a bit of context -- Catholic vestments are simply garments worn in the ancient (and in some cases medieval) period -- the alb is a common tunic worn by many people in ancient Roman society, the amice started a hood, the maniple a handkerchief, the Chasuble a cloak, the stole a shawl, and so on. Each piece represents something, for example the maniple represents sorrow in this vale of tears, the stole represents the sweet yoke of Christ and is (possibly) linked in origin to the Jewish tallit.
It's not a costume, not a fashion statement, but rather a continuous link to the early Church.
This Vatican renders everything banal.
I despise Anna Wintour and her smugness.
The Roman denomination has the most beautiful, stylish, and worldly vestments!
Well said.
I can't wait to see it.
This has very little to do with what Jesus wore and/or taught!
Did you even manage to READ the article? If not, WHY NOT? And if you don't understand a topic/know nothing at all about it, it truly is best to NOT post something stupid, which you did.
Just as the history of food is enlightening, so is what people, of all types, have worn.
In the beginning of special clothing for Catholic clergy, a lot of it was just everyday clothing, but in muted tones. From the beginnings of Nuns, their costumes, including their headgear, was taken/copied from what women were wearing at the time, just in very muted colors...i.e. black, brown, white.
As time passed, through present and 20th century clothing, many designers have taken inspiration from religious vestments. And for all of the posters who are posting completely uneducated and silly posts, you may not care about fashion nor designers; however, you should refrain from posting about things you know nothing whatsoever about!
MM...I saw the article about this in Tuesday's N.Y. York Post.If you haven't seen it, look at it on line. :-)
Though SUMPTUARY LAWS have always been the purview of kings and/or parliament,in Europe, it has been Muslim Imams, NOT the Pope nor the Vatican, who have proscribed what lay people may of may NOT wear!
Wearing a cardinal-appropriate red and black velvet tunic dress, Wintour, for whom Costume Institute’s space was renamed, said the exhibit shows the influence of the papacy over millennia.
But not new:
And just WHAT does your picture of queers trying to disrupt a church service have to do with designer clothing or this article?
Catholic vestments are not costumes and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is not a fashion show.
In the next few years we’re going to see a gradual de-emphasis on vestments, to a more secular look. They have already stripped the churches, removed altar cloths, put plain chalice and candles, all that. Of course the Blessed Sacrament has been simplified and now is being phased into a protestant version.
Just today I was wondering why they keep the vestments. They are not consistent with simpler, ecumenical style. Also, pope shuns several papal items from his garb, inside and out!
I figured probably the multitudinous gays don’t want to give up up these flamboyant robes. But this article opens up what the vision is!
This show, however artistic and lovely, will move ecclesial garments into the non-religious category. I’m not saying it’s a direct plan, nor immediate, but it’s part of the “new paradigm”.
Look at Ravasi of all cardinals!! It’s another tipping point as we have constantly now in the church. Make things bland, uninspiring, a generic religion. Watch your parishes, soon I bet you see dressed down vestments for so-called ecumenical or pastoral reasons.
And IF you had bothered to read the article, as well as my posts, you just might have realized just WHAT this new exhibit is all about...THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S VESTMENTS AND UNIFORMS ( for lack of a better term ) "INFULENCE" ON DESIGNER/COUTURE CLOTHING!
But sadly, your abject lack of reading comprehension is appalling!
Why is the Vatican partnering up with such people?
Brilliant, E T. Showing how fashion in both cases is a distortion, or perversion. All fashion is about change, it’s about pushing aside the norm in exchange for progressive movement. In this case the Church is what’s changing, in the pews, in the chancery, on the papal throne.
And in what world would that be?
If you have as much trouble understanding the simple English that the article is written in, get someone better equipt to read it and then explain it to you.
THIS EXHIBIT IS ABOUT CLOTHING; NOT ABOUT WINTOUR'S OPINIONS ON QUEERS!
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