The Vatican has singled them out as examples of the desecretion of sacred imagery.Catholics, with their deep seated love of the sacrosanct icon are not amused. The Italian duo have found themselves in the unenviable position of not only having to account for their creative motives, but also to fulfil the moral obligation to reaffirm their faith at every opportunity. "We are committed catholics and have a strong and deep devotion for the Madonna.
We wanted to convey this through our fashion as this is how we express ourselves." The Madonna prints were,they stress inspired by a recent trip to Southern Italy- an area soaked with religious iconography-and that the "metaphoric religious procession ," that was divinely reworked was nothing more than a natural follow-up. |
