“Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” opens May 10 in New York.
This spring the fashion world and the Vatican will be joining hands to present the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, joined Vogue editor Anna Wintour, Donattella Versace and other luminaries of the fashion world in Rome for a preview of the exhibit, which opens at the museum’s Costume Institute in New York on May 10.
Ravasi announced, according to a report in Vogue, that the Vatican will be lending the museum a collection of 40 papal robes and other ecclesiastical pieces taken from the Sistine Chapel’s sacristy.