The Pope Wears Prada

So I've been hearing a lot about out new Pope lately. The stories about him being a Nazi at one point in time, allowing the conversion of an Islamic to the Catholic faith and most recently his style of dress. He's been seen wearing Gucci sunglasses, a white, specially engraved iPod and some shoes given to him by GEOX. And there are a few companies trying to be the ones responsible for the new Popemobile, BMW donated a bulletproof X5 SUV to him this past October, but he hasn't used it yet.


So fashion wise, this new Pope is keeping up the times by not wearing brown shoes like the last pope, but some bright, ruby red, Dorothy Gale shoes. When I first saw the image of him stepping off a plane, I was like, are you for real?

Yes, his grace is wearing handmade loafers crafted from an "Italian shoemaker", although I don't know which one yet. Some say it's in honor of the many years he wore red as a cardinal. Bullshit, he's from Italy, he might as well throw on a pair of shoes from Cavalli, since he's in one of the top fashion captials of the world. I did some research and the papal show has been red at times, but not since like 1969. It was such a throwback.

Oh Pope Benedict, you're so Miranda Priestly right now and you kinda actually look like Meryl Streep too. I am just happy he's into fashion and not little boys.

I know -- I'm going to hell