A fondness for pretty, demure dresses doesn’t mean a buttoned-up character.

Just look at the muses Bernadette and Charlotte de Geyter namechecked for the summer – Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Martha Stewart and Charlotte York of “Sex and the City” fame.

Proper, certainly. Prim, absolutely not – and neither is the Bernadette woman. The Belgian mother-and-duo kicked off their sophomore Paris show with a little “Desperate Housewives” moment with a shirtless gardener, drawing thrilled titters.

Casting back to memories of youthful summers, Bernadette drew on its trademark playbook of easy flattering shapes for a winsome spring collection featuring watercolor floral prints, charming embroideries of blooms, bees and beach finds like seashells.

Maxi-dresses came in every flavor, from prin

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