"HEAVENLY BODIES: FASHION & THE CATHOLIC IMAGINATION"
QUEER PRIESTHOOD GOES FROM
PEDOPHILIA TO GARMENT FETISH
"The Vatican is loaning some of their most extravagant clothing items to
the fashion icons to display the church’s wealth and their influence on
fashion."
Vatican, the Met assemble show
on Catholic effect on fashion
(26 Feb 2018) VATICAN, THE MET ASSEMBLE SHOW ON CATHOLIC EFFECT ON
FASHION:
The Vatican's culture minister joined Donatella Versace and Vogue's Anna
Wintour on Monday (26. FEB. 2018) to show off a sampling of sumptuous
Vatican liturgical vestments, jeweled miters and historic papal tiaras
that are starring in an upcoming exhibit of Catholic influences in
fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" opens May 10 at
the Met in New York 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.
The exhibit will be spread out among various Met galleries as well as
the Cloisters branch in upper Manhattan in what organizers said was a
planned "pilgrimage" blending fashion, faith and art.
With Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to "The Mission" playing in the
background, visitors on Monday were able to glimpse at a small sampling
of the soon-to-be-shipped Vatican treasures: The white silk cape
embroidered with gold threat that once belonged to Pope Benedict XV, and
the emerald, sapphire and diamond-studded mitre, or pointed bishops'
hat, of Pope Leo XIII.
They were put on display at the Palazzo Colonna, a former papal
residence in downtown Rome that is a jewel of the Roman Baroque period.
Wearing a cardinal-appropriate red and black velvet tunic dress, Wintour
said the exhibit shows the influence of the papacy over millennia.
"Part of the power of the church has been how they look, and how they
dress," Wintour told The Associated Press. "They have this extraordinary
pressence."
Wearing his red-trimmed clerical garb and red zucchetto, or beanie,
Ravasi told the crowd at Palazzo Colonna that clothing oneself is both a
material necessity and a deeply symbolic act that was even recorded in
the biblical story of Adam and Eve.
SANCTIFYING ITS LOVE OF FASHION:
Highest Fashion! Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi Joins Andrew Bolton,
Donatella Versace, and Anna Wintour for the Rome Launch of the Met’s
Show “Heavenly Bodies Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”. Are you a true fashion
disciple? Then prepare for a pilgrimage. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and
TheCatholic Imagination opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York on on May 10—but today in Rome we glimpsed the most significant
hint so far of the wonders to come. Held in the gilded splendor of the
historic Galleria Colonna, today’s launch was graced by the presence of
Cardinal Ravasi.
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IN PAPAL FASHION SHOW
CARDINAL RAVASI:
A "TRANSCENDANT GRANDIOSE DIMENSION",
IF YOU PLEASE?
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
ABOVE: Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and designer Donatella Versace
"The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with
gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality." – Revelation 17:4John the Revelator received prophecies from Jesus about what has traditionally been interpreted as the Roman Catholic Church. The excerpt above is just a part of that prophecy, which speaks of the opulent, prosperity-dripping extravagance of a church that made its wealth by taking advantage of the poor and selling purported salvation for the trappings of modern fashion.
John Gill, the early Baptist commentator and predecessor to Charles Spurgeon said of the passage:
[This] may denote her hypocrisy, she being gilded with these things, as the word signifies, when she was inwardly rotten, corrupt, and filthy; and may point out the things by which persons have been enticed into the communion of the church of Rome, and to comply with her idolatrous worship and practices; and may also respect the prodigious riches, which have, by various methods, been brought into the pope’s coffers; these, with other things, are reckoned among the merchandise of BabylonHow ironic, then, that the Vatican is teaming up with Vogue Magazine and the Versace fashion line to showcase the influence of the papacy on gaudy, riches-doused clothing lines for immodest men and women.
An exhibition on Vatican wealth and style will begin on May 10 and is called Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. The website says:
The Costume Institute’s spring 2018 exhibition—at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—will feature a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion’s ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.The event is sponsored by Versace, Vogue, and Conde’ Nost (a syndicate that sells Glamour Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, Allure, and Epicurious Magazines). You can find a video of some of the displays below.
Serving as the cornerstone of the exhibition, papal robes and accessories from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many of which have never been seen outside The Vatican, will be on view in the Anna Wintour Costume Center. Fashions from the early 20th century to the present will be shown in the Byzantine and medieval galleries, part of the Robert Lehman Wing, and at The Met Cloisters.
The Vatican is loaning some of their most extravagant clothing items to
the fashion icons to display the church’s wealth and their influence on
fashion.
