“What would be the name of the Pope Francis lifestyle brand?” Georgetown policy professor Don Moynihan wrote in a tweet in which he included Xavier’s AI-generated image next to two other (real) photos of the Pope: one where he’s speaking into a microphone with the ruminative gaze of a backpack rapper, and another where he’s autographing a Popemobile-white Lamborghini with a permanent marker. This seemed to be the prevailing takeaway. Afterwards, he posted it on the Midjourney subreddit under the title “The Pope Drip.” Then it was just coming like water: ‘The Pope in Balenciaga puffy coat, Moncler, walking the streets of Rome, Paris,’ stuff like that,” Xavier said. It just dawned on me: I should do the Pope. Xavier told Buzzfeed News that he felt moved to write the Midjourney prompt for the image while he was tripping on shrooms: “I try to do funny stuff or trippy art-psychedelic stuff. It was created by a 31-year-old Chicago man named Pablo Xavier using Midjourney, an artificial intelligence image generator. The image, of course, was very much not real. And popes, no matter how frugal, still live in the gilded swag realm that is Roman Catholicism. And hey, it’s 2023 and Francis is, after all, the Athleisure Pope. Plus a puffy coat seems practical it can get pretty wintry up there in Vatican City. The zucchetto perched atop his head might as well have been a little rolled-up beanie. So when an image of Pope Francis dressed in a Jet-Puffed, winter-white, ankle-length hooded down jacket went viral over the weekend, it was understandable that many people thought it was real. In 2017, Vatican tailors and cobblers who’d been dressing popes for generations told the Catholic news site Crux that Francis’ understated style-his preference for what one might call “papal athleisure”-was throwing them for a loop. He has habitually eschewed the sacred red slippers and ermine trim of his predecessors. Pope Francis, the 86-year-old leader of the Catholic Church, is an unconventionally laidback dresser.
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