Pope watchers have been put on notice that the Vatican does not take kindly to facile labels like "retro" or "vintage" when discussing the sartorial choices of Pope Benedict XVI.
After insistent rumours that the pope's red shoes were from luxury house Prada, the Vatican finally put the matter to rest.
Benedict, 81, is a "simple and sober man (who is) not dressed by Prada but by Christ," the newspaper L'Osservatore Romano wrote last week, noting that the colour symbolises the blood of martyrs.
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