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Singer Katy Perry arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York May 7 for the exhibit "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination." (CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, Reuters)

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Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination

Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spearheaded the Met’s new show, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” which looks at how religion and religious art have influenced fashion designers. 

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