Red Carpet Rundown: The Met Gala 2018 by Genevieve Valentine
Catholicism has been asking people to understand and adopt its imagery for a long, long time, and has put money and blood behind the effort. If Rihanna wants to dress like the Pope, and your first instinct is that’s disrespectful to the Pope, 1) please check the history of the Pope taking advantage of the Church’s unfathomable wealth for his personal use via vestments, jewelry, and the Vatican art collection, 2) tough.
She did, by the way. Straight-up Pontifexed herself.