The Pope doesn’t costume in Prada | EUROtoday

En time to conclave, we are going to by no means say sufficient the evil that Paul VI and Vatican II made the looks of the princes of the church by simplifying rites and costumes. No extra, the silk flights of the big cardinal coats floating within the Richelieu -style wind on the seat of La Rochelle or parade of ecclesiastical trend of Fellini Roma ; Forgotten, the sacrifice of tumbles of Hermines parant in winter the Mozette, this brief pilgrim carried on the cassock and underneath which, thank God, we are able to nonetheless dare a rock solely embroidered with lace – which permits sure prelates to enter into resistance in opposition to ceremonial frugality by bringing out of historical cuffs to the purpose of whipped cream or Alençon, giving the classic a brand new anointing.

Read too Olivier Py on the conclave: “It’s a photogenic moment” All this doesn’t do the affairs of Gammarelli, an everyday tailor of the Holy See, compelled to promote mid-bishops and cardinals to somewhat esthetes vacationers. The solely sure order, the Immaculate Ensemble that the brand new pope takes within the tears room after his election. A textile trinity, to inform the reality: in order that this passage from scarlet cardinal to pontifical white is for the very best, with out deal with impact, three sizes are deliberate … Sic transit gloria mundi.