Luisa Beccaria really lives the lifestyle her romantic clothes are made for. A case in point is the wonderful wedding party she just threw for daughter Lucilla at their family estate, Feudo del Castelluccio, in Sicily, a whimsical place if ever there was one. Lucilla looked like a vision, wearing a dress designed years ago by her mother, a lace concoction fit for a fairy-tale princess. Which she actually is, her father being the Sicilian aristocrat Prince Lucio Bonaccorsi di Reburdone. “I wanted that very same dress since I was a child,” said a smiling Lucilla. “When I first saw it, I said to Mama: One day, that will be my wedding dress!”
For Resort, Luisa and Lucilla relied on their true-and-tested recipe: an ode to ethereal femininity, in clouds of filmy fabrics scattered with embroidered wildflowers galore. For the mother-daughter designer duo, in every girl there’s a princess ready to be awakened. They shrouded her in fragile organzas, eyelet linens, laces, chiffons, and georgettes in exquisite watercolor hues. Celadon, almond green, powder pink, lavender, coral, primrose yellow, and sky blue were so delicate they were barely there. Ruching and volants swirled around long hems, elongated sleeves, and décolletages, while crisp cotton poplin had a less otherworldly feel on long striped shirtdresses and sundresses printed with floral motifs. Even if they somehow suggested a more practical approach, it was just a passing, deceitful thought; Beccaria’s girls are dreamy at heart and as bohemian and enchanting as they come.
