Paris Fashion Week witnessed Steven Passaro’s Moonlit Lover Spring/Summer 2026 collection, an exemplar of the aftermath of love encountered after midnight and gone before sunrise. Delicate fabrics with bold tailoring mirror passion and pain, knotted cords hug the body like the memory of being held too tightly. Taking a different approach to love, the collection is more of a confession rather than a love story, with visual tensions between control and emotion capturing the feeling of a secret affair. Passaro’s most vulnerable collection yet is a reflection on the traces of longing, dissecting unreal love and momentary seductions that leave more wounds than warmth.

Inspired by a memory of love in the Scottish Highlands, kilt-like constructions nod to tradition, and embroidered thorns become gentle warnings. Unfinished seams, fractured silhouettes, and quiet details romanticize broken moments, the stillness, and little instants of understanding, those that make us question everything we thought we knew. There’s a softness in the garments that feels both deliberate and haunted. During the collection’s presentation, artisans worked quietly in different stations, hand-sewing, pinning, and shaping fabric in real time, a slow choreography that emphasized the emotional fragility of Moonlit Lover, as an echo of vulnerable secrecy and fantasy unraveled by reality.

Check out the collection below: