It’s all fun and fashion games until your dress is too short for the Pope. Linda Evangelista learned this the hard way in 1994, when she arrived at God’s palazzo in a babydoll dress by her friend Anna Sui. The wispy straps and bum-grazing hem proved too much for the priests on duty, and the supermodel was forced to vacate the Vatican on her summer vacation. “We laughed about it later,” Sui tells W from her studio in Manhattan’s Garment District. “These Italian guys in uniforms were yelling to Linda about her shoulders and her knees. It was like being back at school.” Ever the quick-thinking stylist, Sui covered Evangelista’s cleavage in a black woolen shawl and found her some leggings. But first, they took a photo.

That tidbit is just one colorful moment of many in The Nineties x Anna

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