‘I was designing from a very young age, so it really is a life story’ Meeting the wildly creative, truly romantic fashion designer Luisa Beccaria is like an experience from a bygone era. Everything, from how she sits to how she phrases her words and, of course, how she dresses, is utterly feminine and romantic. Her signature dark, almost black, hair is in striking contrast to her pale, cornflower-blue eyes. Coupled with her porcelain-white skin and sprinkling of freckles, you would hardly imagine she is of Italian origin.
But Italian she most definitely is. Born in Milan, she has spent a nomadic life travelling between the city of her birth, where her work is based, and her adopted home of Sicily, where she and her husband, Sicilian aristocrat Don Lucio…
