Whom You Know: #ReadThis @MetMuseum @yalepress #HeavenlyBodies #WhomYouKnow Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination by Andrew Bolton

Friday, June 29, 2018

#ReadThis @MetMuseum @yalepress #HeavenlyBodies #WhomYouKnow Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination by Andrew Bolton

Never before has the world seen such a comprehensive, fabulous and gorgeous display of Catholic Fashion, representing a most storied history of 2018 years AD and no one could have done it better than The Metropolitan Museum of Art, our favorite. And if you like us, you obviously like the Catholic Imagination because Peachy Deegan was born with it.

Our coverage of the exhibit:

AT THE MET AND THE CLOISTERS: #CatholicFashion Heavenly Bodies Fashion and the Catholic Imagination #CulturedPeachy #PeachyandtheCity #FASHIONALERT #MetGala #WhomYouKnow #MetHeavenlyBodies Earns Our Highest Recommendation Best Exhibit Since McQueen
http://www.whomyouknow.com/2018/05/at-met-and-cloisters-catholicfashion.html

Along with the Savage Beauty Alexander McQueen exhibit in 2011 and Anglomania, which predates Whom You Know by three years, this is our favorite fashion exhibit at The Met. Yale University Press with The Met's Andrew Bolton have another winner between two covers to commemorate this great exhibit which you absolutely must see, and can see again and again every time you read the book which draws parallels between religion and fashion making the reader think beyond regular capacities of style.

The brilliant theological emphasis that references Augustine in the 4th and 5th centuries and Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages is the best we've seen since freshman year at Boston College in Perspectives class. This is by far the most academically-motivated book that has accompanied the Met Fashion May exhibit in the ten years we've covered them.

Though Catholic by definition means Universal, Andrew Bolton concentrates on Catholic Pluralism from the four gospels to the divergence that inspires the Catholic imagination. There are actually three books within this one book and literally, two bound books in this one case. The first bound book is on the Vatican, and the second covers both Worship and Devotion, the second and third aspects.

The laudable historical and theological context that you see throughout, especially when it relates to actual garments, shown on the right, and their original inspiration, shown on the left, supersedes any other fashion comparison. We think more homilies should be devoted to this subject, but sadly Andrew Bolton is not a priest. One highly unfortunate aspect of this exhibit is that in the Vatican, there are no styles for women. Women should have always been able to have been priests and this is a lifelong complaint of Peachy's. All of the Vatican styles are for men, of course. The nuns should have at least had equal fashion treatment even if they did not have the lead role in the church.

Though the lead role is played by Fifth Avenue as usual, you would be highly remiss to ignore the Cloisters, which is in its most fabulous display ever and is setting of total perfection for this exhibit. Actually, we might even argue that in this case, the Cloisters are the star of the show. From the alters to the gardens inspiring Chanel, Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Christian Lacroix and more, the Catholic tradition executed in actual style is truly evocative of Bolton's maxim of divergence resulting from the Catholic imagination. Balenciaga on page 201 is our favorite look.

Selected pages:

Even the Pope wears Prada loafers and Gucci sunglasses.

The gospel of Andrew Bolton, Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, is Highly Recommended by Whom You Know.

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Heavenly Bodies:

Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

Andrew Bolton

With Barbara Drake Boehm, Marzia Cataldi Gallo, C. Griffith Mann, David Morgan, Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi, and David Tracy Images by Katerina Jebb

Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the world’s greatest works of art. These masterworks have, in turn, fueled the imaginations of fashion designers in the 20th and 21st centuries, yielding some of the most innovative creations in the history of fashion. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination explores fashion’s complex and often controversial relationship with Catholicism by examining the role of spirituality and religion in contemporary culture. This two-volume publication connects significant religious art and artifacts to their sartorial expressions. One volume features images of rarely seen objects from the Vatican—ecclesiastical garments and accessories—while the other focuses on fashions by designers such as Cristobal Balenciaga, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Madame Grès, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeanne Lanvin, Claire McCardell, Thierry Mugler, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Gianni Versace. Essays by art historians and leading religious authorities provide perspective on how dress manifests—or subverts—Catholic values and ideology.

Andrew Bolton is Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accompanying the exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters, on view May 10–October 8, 2018.

Heavenly Bodies:

Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

9 × 13 in.

336 pages; 330 illustrations

ISBN: 978-1-58839-645-7

Two hardcover volumes in slipcase

Available May 2018 Published by

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Distributed by Yale University Press

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