Episode 106 - Filipinos and the Catholic Imagination

Each year the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute hosts a fundraising gala. Vogue's own Anna Wintour chairs the event, where a theme is selected and its corresponding exhibit is revealed.  This year's theme, which comes to a close in early October, is "Fashion and the Catholic Imagination."  We discuss how Catholicism, Catholic icons and iconography permeate in popular culture, as well as within the Filipino Identity and its undeniable impact.  We revel and delight in the fashion of this past year's Gala red carpet (and yes, you can never be too late for the party).  Finally, we unpack and take a deep personal dive into how the Catholic tradition of discernment is the key to understanding and incorporating diametric points of view within ourselves and the world around us.

 

In the Mix this Week:

• Pandesal,
• The Cultural Impact of Kanye West | J. Bailey | Palgrave Macmillan,
• Met Gala 2018 Live Blog: See Every Red Carpet Arrival,
• Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Gallery Views,
• Flores de Mayo,
• Flores de Mayo at Santacruzan,
  
• Discernment of Spirits,
• Catholic Cemetery Myths for Catholics