Filippo Sorcinelli's work spans sacred vestments, fragrance, music, photography, and art. Yet across every practice, a common thread emerges: creating beauty in service of another person.

Through Atelier Lavs, Filippo has designed sacred vestments for Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV, and clergy around the world. Through UNUM, his fragrance house, he creates scents that move between memory, ritual, sensuality, faith, and personal freedom. Whether expressed through fabric, fragrance, sound, or image, his work is ultimately about helping others feel known.

In this episode of Style as Identity, Filippo Sorcinelli and Lola Catero discuss sacred vestments, Catholicism, personal identity, freedom, contradiction, beauty, and the role of service in creative work. Explore how a practicing Catholic and openly gay artist navigates faith and selfhood, why beauty is experienced through the body before it is understood by the mind, and how creation can become a language for belonging.

Hear about what it’s actually like to design for the Vatican, his approach to designing - and pricing - custom vestments and whether or not he meets directly with the Pope.

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