I grew up in New England, where winter holds on into April and then, in a few warm afternoons in May, the gardens crack open. Lilacs come first, heavy with thousands of small buds, then irises along the fences, then peonies that bloom full and drop their heads after a hard rain. The Summer Capsule began in those weeks, the ones I keep waiting for through every winter.

Pivoine Bleue is a print rendered from fond memories. Peonies, fluffy with layers of internal petals, have been my mother's favorite flower for as long as I can remember. Captured in a Jacobean lens, they are rendered on a soft teal-ish blue background. Provence Bloom came after, inspired by the explosion of small wildflowers that come with summer, the ones that scatter brightness across a field of uniform green.

The capsule arrives in four pieces this season. The Lucette dress and the Clemence maxi carry the prints; the Giselle top brings gauzy cotton with lace at the trim, in rosewater and celadon; the Simone pant is the easy ivory cotton, with eyelet and pintucks at the hem. Everything is small batch and open for preorder now.

First pieces arrive at the end of June, to live and love in for the long summer ahead.

- Sophia