From Conclave to Catwalk - First Things

From Conclave to Catwalk - First Things

Secular culturistas continue to be fascinated by the Catholic Church—or at least by its external trappings. The Italian fashion design firm Dolce & Gabbana’s recent show in Rome for its men’s line, Alta Sartoria, was entirely devoted to riffs on Catholic clerical garments of the most sumptuous sort, heavy with brocade, gold-thread trim, and bejeweled crosses. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the forty-year-old firm’s founders, used as their o…