the shoes are from Italy
All the sames shoes ?
Pope Wears Prada, And Italy's Abuzz
Friday, December 23, 2005
VATICAN CITY – Whether it's Prada and Gucci, or just fancy ecclesiastical tailoring, Pope Benedict XVI is his own man when it comes to dressing.
Just days before Christmas, Benedict showed up at his weekly public audience in St. Peter's Square wearing a fur-trimmed stocking cap that could have passed for a Santa Claus hat.
Earlier this month, he made another fashion statement – donning a red velvet cape trimmed in ermine for the traditional papal visit to the statue of the Madonna near the Spanish Steps that marks the beginning of Rome's Christmas season.
Coming after gossip about his wearing Gucci sunglasses and bright red Prada loafers, the vintage styles have turned Benedict into something of a fashion celebrity.
"Those red shoes have made quite an impression," said Vatican historian Alberto Melloni.
http ://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122201914.html
Antonio Arellano, Peruvian Artisan, The Designer Behind Pope’s Iconic Red Shoes (PHOTOS)
When he emigrated from his native Peru to Rome, Italy, Antonio Arellano never imagined he would end up measuring the foot of one of the most influential men in the world: Pope Benedict XVI. He still can’t believe that his little shoe store, in the Borgo Pio neighborhood, close to Vatican City, became the favorite of cardinals and religious leaders.
Pope Benedict XVI doesn’t use Prada shoes, as was speculated at some point about the red pair that have been his trademark throughout his pontificate period, which ends this February 28 after he made his resignation public.
The man behind those iconic red shoes is, in fact, Hispanic. They are a product of Peruvian artisan Arellano, The Washington Post reports.
https ://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/antonio-arellano-red-shoes-pope_n_2775898.html
Why does it matter? Because Francis' shoes have become one of the small symbols of his style, so different from that of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, known in the Italian media as the "Prada Pope" who wore bright red leather loafers custom made for him by his personal cobbler.
https ://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/09/22/pope-francis-arrives-and-hes-not-prada-pope/72634962/
The devil wears Prada — and so does the Pope.
https ://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/pope-fashion-history-met-gala-2018
Why the Pope Wears Red Shoes
Those red shoes, for example—which the pontifex emeritus has now given up in favor of a more ordinary brown pair from Mexico—may symbolize the blood of Christian martyrs. But when red shoes were the height of fashion in Etruscan Rome, that is, five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, they designated the wearer as an aristocrat, someone who could afford leather that had been colored with the most expensive dye in the Mediterranean, Phoenician “purple”—which was actually scarlet red. (It was produced by scoring the bodies of molluscs and ranged in color from blue to red, with red the most prized shade.) The leather itself came not from kangaroos, of course, but from the Chianina cattle, who came to Italy together with the Etruscans and provided the ancestral form of Florentine beefsteak.
https ://www.nybooks.com/daily/2013/03/12/why-pope-wears-red-shoes/