Lorenzo Serafini’s February debut as successor to Alberta Ferretti at her namesake brand was entitled Progressive Romantics. For this resort follow-up he expanded beyond that starting point, working to both broaden and refine his own dialect of Ferretti’s long-established and hyper-feminine design language.

At the rail, Serafini approached the dress in look one with the pragmatic expertise of a designer intimately versed in the mechanics of dressmaking and whose primary consideration is user-experience. “This is especially nice, because it’s stretchy and cut on the bias, so it’s very comfortable. And there’s this interesting contrast of shiny in the fabric and matte in the lace.” We then paused at a white dress with ruffles at the neck and the waist that was cut in airily knit mohair from

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