Pax On Mars was not built from fashion references alone.
Many of the ideas behind the brand come from architecture, cinema, sculpture and Italian visual culture. The garments are often shaped by atmosphere before they are shaped by trend. A building can influence a silhouette. A painting can influence colour. A piece of industrial design can influence construction.
This approach comes from growing up surrounded by Italian aesthetics, where design is rarely separated from everyday life.
In Italy, beauty exists in unexpected places. The geometry of old streets. The proportions of church interiors. A hand-painted sign outside a family café. Even ordinary objects are often approached with a certain level of thoughtfulness. La bella figura is not only about appearance. It is about presence, care and composition.
One recurring influence for Pax On Mars is the work of Carlo Scarpa. His architecture combined precision with emotion in a way that still feels contemporary decades later. Scarpa understood how materials communicate. Concrete, brass, stone and water were never treated as static surfaces. They carried atmosphere.
That sensitivity translates naturally into clothing.
The Scarpa sweater, for example, references architectural rhythm through line and structure rather than through obvious graphic treatment. The intention is subtlety. Something felt before it is explained.
The paintings of Piero della Francesca also continue to influence the brand. His compositions carried a sense of stillness and mathematical balance that feels strangely modern even today. Figures positioned with calm precision. Space treated almost like sculpture. Silenzio visivo.
This relationship between order and emotion appears throughout Pax On Mars collections.
There are also influences from Italian radical design movements from the 1960s and 70s. Designers who challenged traditional ideas of form and function. Not through chaos, but through experimentation and courage. They understood that design should provoke feeling, not only solve problems.
Pax On Mars exists somewhere between these worlds.
Between art and utility.
Between tailoring and movement.
Between the past and something still undefined.
The garments are not intended to imitate historical Italian fashion. The goal is not nostalgia. Instead, the brand tries to carry forward a certain attitude toward beauty, one that values permanence, proportion and cultural depth over short-term novelty.
Fashion moves quickly.
Culture moves slower.
Pax On Mars is more interested in the second.