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The stylist created the new liturgical vestments worn by priests, bishops and deacons this Saturday, December 7, during the reopening of the cathedral.
He saw it as a real “achievement”. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, in fact, was asked to create the new liturgical vestments of Notre-Dame de Paris, worn by the men of the church at the cathedral’s reopening this Saturday, December 7. He felt a “terrible emotion” when the building burned down in 2019 , the next day he posted a drawing of his new stained glass roof. Little did he imagine that he would be contacted to create the nearly 2,000 pieces that would adorn Notre Dame’s nearly 1,500 bishops, priests and permanent deacons.
And it was light
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His watch. “Simplicity, solemnity and modernity”. She, who dressed Pope John Paul II for World Youth Day in 1997, therefore designed a gown with bursts of red, blue, green and yellow velvet around a large gold cross, inspired by artist Marc Couturier’s, gathered on ecru wool gabardine. : So the stylist chose his “favorite” shades, which he considered “universal”, as he declared to AFP: For the blood of Christ, blue for Mary, green for hope, and yellow for gold, “the synthesis of all things.” The result: A kind of “medieval mondrian”.
“It was not about making luxurious clothes, but about “luxury” (light in Latin, Editor’s note), the fashion designer explained to AFP. Before adding: “We decided with the bishop that there would be no painting and that I would do a very simple work with ornaments that create a neighborhood.” “Knight” tires, which he designed with the help of the best French artisan houses such as Lesage or Maison Michel, a year and a half grouped in the 19M workshops in Paris. “Today it’s almost more rock and roll to work for the Church than to be on the Thames in ’77 sex with guns,” joked Jean-Charles de Castelbajac in an AFP column.
Source: Le Figaro
