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06/01/2026

“Le Réveil à Monaco.

The champagne has lost its sparkle.
The music has long faded into silence.

Only the sea remains.

Standing before the first light of the Côte d’Azur, she revisits fragments of a night already becoming memory, a strip of film held against the horizon, searching for moments that cannot be lived twice.

Between the evidence of celebration and the calm of the Mediterranean, there is always this brief and beautiful space:
when yesterday still lingers, and tomorrow has not yet arrived.

Monte Carlo, Monaco.

05/28/2026

Very Happy. Heart full❤️

05/20/2026

I WAS CREATED TO CREATE.

For the past months, this project has completely taken over my life.

My energy.
My thoughts.
My time.
My creativity.

Something inside me was asking for more.

As a fine art photographer, creative director and creator of experiences, atmospheres and concepts.
I always found beauty in building worlds around emotion and aesthetics.

Through photography.
Through events.
Through spaces.
Through visual storytelling.

But at some point, it stopped being enough.
I felt the need to physically create with my hands.

To touch materials.
To cut fabrics.
To shape forms.
To obsess over textures, silhouettes and details.
To transform vision into something tangible.

That instinct slowly became this new chapter.

I officially took the role of Creative Director and Designer of Kenny Parker, and together with Trent Hogan, whose mentality of building comes from years of construction, structure and craftsmanship, we found a creative chemistry completely aligned through passion, obsession and love for design.

For months we’ve been quietly building a new vision together.

New Kenny Parker pieces.
New materials.
New silhouettes.
New energy.

At the same time, I’ve been developing the first CHATEAU MUSE capsule collection:
limited wearable art pieces,
Italian leather bags handcrafted with intention,
and a perfume I originally created more than 10 years ago in Paris, a scent I kept privately evolving over the years through subtle variations until it finally became exactly what it was meant to be.

The art wearable tees will include some of my fine art photographs printed in very limited editions, each one accompanied by a physical fine art print and certificate, because I never wanted these pieces to feel like simple garments.

I wanted them to feel collectible.
Personal.
Alive.

Built between art and fabric.

This is not just fashion for me.

It’s years of vision finally becoming something real.

And this is only the beginning.

05/15/2026

Too much Soul for a clean shirt. 🖤

05/10/2026

WHAT A LIFE BABY❤️‍🔥

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05/06/2026

The Ocean Whisperer

Last dance in Lanka.
Engine cut. Silence hit. The wave spoke first.

Board balanced overhead, cutting a clean line through palm shadows.
Feet on warm asphalt, eyes fixed on the horizon.

No crowd, no noise, just black coffee on the tongue and salt in the air.
Walk in. Paddle out.

Let it take you.

05/04/2026

More from “Wheels & Waves”
a few steps down, into the hush of the archive.

Negatives breathing dust,
salt and motion flickering back to life.

Between them
summer girls, lost in pages,
fingers combing light through their hair.

The past drifts, softly.

04/29/2026

“Wheels and Waves” Freedom, Flesh & Fuel. This is a raw and sun-soaked collection born in Bali, where my passions collide motorcycles, surfboards, palm trees, the beach, and the wild energy of girls and speed.

But the soul of this series goes deeper, rooted in my childhood in Puglia, where my father and my godfather ran a windsurfing school.

I grew up on those beaches, barefoot, windblown, surrounded by motorbikes parked in the sand, surfboards scattered around, and beautiful topless women sunbathing under the southern Italian sun.

That world, full of freedom and sensuality, shaped me, as a human, and as an artist.

Years later, in Bali, I found the same spirit again and captured it.

Many of the photographs were shot not only across Bali, but also throughout Indonesia, from the remote surf breaks of the Mentawai Islands to the rugged coastlines of West Java.

These images aren’t just photographs, they’re a tribute to the carefree, sun-drenched chaos that formed my soul.

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04/27/2026

For a long time, creation meant capturing

images
atmospheres
experiences

as an artist
as a creative director
building spaces, shaping moments, creating energy around people

from fine art photography
to events and environments

it was enough
until it wasn’t
something inside me kept asking for more

not to observe
but to touch
to build

to create directly with my hands
to feel the material
to control the form
to shape something real, from nothing

so I went quiet

working in the background
obsessing over details

cutting, refining, rebuilding
learning a different rhythm

slower, more precise
more honest
every piece
crafted with intention

this is where I’ve been
not away
just deeper in the process

a new form of creation is taking shape
and soon
I’ll be ready to show it

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04/24/2026

The other side of the lens.
no distance, no control, only presence.
no performance, no protection.
just skin, light, and instinct, in my element.
Naked, exposed, exactly as I am.
The same truth I’ve always tried to capture,
showing women how I imagine myself, if I were them.

For years, I’ve felt this from the other side,
mirroring it through the women I photograph.

This time, it was mine.
Now I know.
and it feels like freedom.

thank you Adam for proposing this to me.
For allowing me to meet myself, this way.
no filter. no bu****it. just real.

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Manhattan, NY
03501

Website

https://mariostefanelli.com/

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