In Luisa Beccaria’s world, spring is the season for garden parties, wedding receptions and joy-filled celebrations — with wide-brimmed hats to boot. 

She’s a consummate host, often organizing chic breakfasts in her hamlet close to Noto on the island of Sicily, where Ladies Who Lunch, locals and Beccaria’s children coalesce. 

Beccaria has built her brand on her matriarchal family’s lifestyle and taste. For spring, she lined up occasionwear galore, for, say, a romantic bride in a tulle-layered off-the-shoulder ballgown with the bodice framed by airy ruffles, scattered throughout with tiny embroidered roses; for her bridesmaids in billowing chiffon gowns or lace tube skirts and matching square neckline tops. She had the mother of the bride covered, too, in a light blue opera coat over a full-skirted belted gown reminiscent of the ’50s.

The more daring of the wedding attendees might embrace the strapless numbers covered in tulle rosettes, or even the bralette and miniskirt set decked in big sequined flowers. 

Most models donned braids with inlaid chiffon ribbons, smiling and twirling with nonchalance, providing a picture-perfect and placid early-morning moment inside the courtyard of the 18th-century Palazzo Bovara. 

Beccaria consistently conjures a romance and a fairy tale, which her jet-setting clientele has proved loyal to for decades.

With all that’s going on in the world, the designer maintains it’s even more important to keep a positive mindset. 

“When you spread positivity it becomes a global movement which shapes reality,” she said. 

Even though some of the clothes lacked currency, one wouldn’t ask the designer to change her optimistic, whimsical viewpoint.