SS26 - Moonlit Lover

This is not a love story, it’s a confession.

 With Moonlit Lover, Steven Passaro unveils his most subversive collection to date, an intimate reflection on the shadows of desire. A departure from traditional romance, this season dissects the forms of (non) love: toxic longing, haunting illusions, and fleeting seductions that bruise more than they bond.

The kind of love that happens after midnight and disappears before the light.

Of connections vorn in secrecy, sustained by fantasy, and shattered by reality.

 The silhouette draws inspiration from a memory of past love in the Scottish Highlands. Echoes of tradition emerge through kilt-like constructions, while embroidered thorns creep across garments like soft warnings, beauty entangled, tenderness caught in bramble. Knotted cords slither around the body, their paths tracing where hands once gripped too tightly: a love that bound as much as it burned. A visual tension between structure and surrender reflects the emotional landscape of the hidden affair.

Delicate fabrics clash with sharp tailoring, echoing the duality of passion and pain. Fractured silhouettes, undone seams, and whispered details reflect the beauty found in broken moments, those rare instants of clarity, silence, and skin that make you question everything you thought you knew.

Passaro invites you into the tension of secrecy the midnight entanglement, the unspoken word, the kiss that shouldn’t have happened.

Moonlit Lover is (not) about love…

Creative Direction: Steven Passaro @stevenpassaro
Stylist and Image Consultant: Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrsjn
Make-up Artist:  Lisa Michalik @lisamchlik Artlist @ artlistparisnewyork
Hair Stylist: Mélissa Rouillé @melissa_rouille Artlist @ artlistparisnewyork
Casting: Manon Sassy @manonsassycasting
Video:  Baleine sous Cachalot @baleinesouscachalot, Anthony Goujjane @antohnygouj_
Music Composition: Edith Progue @edithprogue
Production: Kamolia, Dévi Sok @devisok

Footwear: Hereu @hereu_
Couture Millinery  : Nino Kun @2nokun