Luisa Beccaria and daughter Lucilla hosted an intimate fall presentation in the romantic atmosphere of LùBar, Ludovico Bonaccorsi’s plant-filled café. Ludovico is one of Luisa’s five children, who were all variously involved in staging the event. Yet it’s Lucilla who’s now carrying the fashion baton: “We imagined a dreamy winter garden,” she said, surrounded by a posse of jeunes filles en fleur wearing—what else?—long, flimsy floral dresses in every imaginable pastel hue of dusty pink and powdery blue. The filles fleurs were sitting properly in delightful tableaux vivants, or were delicately lounging on iron garden banquettes, upholstered with floral percale cottons matching their dresses. They looked like they were straight out of a Lawrence Alma-Tadema painting.
Beccaria’s dresses are in a class of their own; few other designers do occasion dressing with the same light-handed romantic flair as she does. This season, the mother-daughter duo added a dash of eccentricity to the airy flavor of their concoctions. They had every floral dress—which came in the flimsiest chiffons, tulle, or organzas—worn over a stretchy long-sleeve turtleneck, with stockings and thigh-high boots all matching in allover-printed contrasting micro-florals. The effect was charming and felt modern. Floral motifs were also printed on high-waist denim pants; Lucilla paired them with a delicate ruched blouse and matching booties to take a well-deserved bow with her mother.
