For those who grew up in a Catholic immigrant family and are currently making a living off of their creativity, meeting the Pope may be the only guaranteed way to convince your mom that you’re doing real work. This week, the Manila-born, Los Angeles-bred designer Rhuigi Villaseñor experienced that honor when he visited the Vatican with the express purpose of meeting Pope Leo XIV and presented him with a letterman jacket made by his own label, Rhude.
“I was talking to my mother because,…

