Marzia Cataldi Gallo, an art historian specializing in fashion and textiles, was Director of the Artistic and Historical Heritage of Liguria for the Italian Ministry of Culture and is Co-Director of DVJ Centro Studi Tessuto e Moda, Genoa.Ĭ.
Essays by art historians and leading religious authorities provide perspective on how dress manifests-or subverts-Catholic values and ideology.Īndrew Bolton is the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkīarbara Drake Boehm is the Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 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. This two-volume publication connects significant religious art and artifacts to their sartorial expressions.
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. 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. Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the world’s greatest works of art.
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