Vogue just named him one of the best-dressed people in the world for 2025:
Elected to the papacy just seven months ago, Pope Leo XIV is quickly making an impression in Hollywood and among the elite fashionistas of the world, making Vogue Magazine’s best dressed list for 2025.
In an issue published Dec. 11, the magazine, which just a month ago dropped a video of history’s first-ever American pontiff ticking off his favorite films, named the pope as among the top 55 “best dressed” individuals this year.
Vogue described the models, actors, directors, designers – and pontiffs – who made the list as “extremely fashionable characters” who in 2025 “dressed in ways that made us take notice.”
Pope Leo appears in the issue dressed in a royal purple liturgical vestment and accompanying miter with the soft and gentle smile that first captured the world’s heart when he stepped onto the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica following his May 8 election to the papacy.
In terms of his papal fashion sense, Vogue said the pontiff is known for “Breaking with the humble tastes of his predecessor” Pope Francis, who preferred very simple attire, while still “keeping his tailor and maintaining the papal legacy for fine-fitting liturgical vestments.”
Referring to a Nov. 15 audience the pope held with the world of cinema, attended by on-screen legends such as Monica Bellucci and Cate Blanchett, the magazine said that to invite Hollywood personalities of such stature to the Vatican was a bid “to modernize the Church’s image” while indulging “his own cinephilias.”
