Designer Designs Notre Dame's Re-opening

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Fashion designer describes invitation to work on Notre Dame cathedral's re-opening as 'a calling'

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French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac designed 2,000 colorful vestments for cathedral's re-opening next month .

The garments, often in thick off-white Scottish wool gabardine, blend his signature eye-popping pop-art aesthetic with a reverence for the cathedral’s centuries-old legacy with medieval touches.

The designs are a variation on Pope John Paul II's robes, infused with bright, almost childlike hues that evoke optimism.

This combination produced a modern-looking body of work that reflects the unity, hope, and rebirth symbolized by Notre Dame itself—just like the phoenix-like rooster gleaming like fire atop the newly constructed spire. When the cathedral reopens on the weekend of Dec. 7-8 , Castelbajac hopes the vestments will be viewed by the world as a testament to renewal and the “power of color” to heal and inspire..

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