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-

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