Castelluccio

Italy · Monti Sibillini · February 2026

Post CardPadre 65 · Spring '26

Love from Castelluccio, Padre

Castelluccio is a remote town around three and a half hours from Rome. The landscape is unreal, but what really made the trip were the people. We bonded with the locals, and one of them was with us throughout the trip, helping us experience Castelluccio in a way we never could have on our own.

But we came in February, which meant filming in short sleeve T shirts in sub zero temperatures. It was as cold as it sounds. We spent most of the trip freezing, had a very small window to shoot, and somehow came home with content we loved and a few stories that still make us laugh.

The snow-covered plain beneath the Sibillini mountains

Piano Grande

The plain in February, completely covered in snow and looking like another planet.

Movement I — A personal history

This place was always part of the story

Our founder's dad first came to Castelluccio when he was younger, camping in the wild and paragliding over the ridges. Years later, it felt right to come back and make our first collection here.

Shot on Portra and Gold, because the cold looked better on film.

Padre first collection — knitwear against the mountainside

Castelluccio — the film

The mountains make you feel very small, very quickly.

The cold gets through everything you are wearing.

But when the place looks this good, you stay out and keep filming.

Portrait — Padre first collection styling — Layered for the cold — stone, snow, wool.

Movement II — After the earthquake

Walking through the town was surreal. Much of it was still destroyed, but there was also a strange beauty to it. Somehow, the roll of film we shot there was destroyed too, and we only managed to recover one or two pictures. You couldn't make it up.

The roll — Castelluccio