Family Affairs

I'm enjoying these images from the Family Affairs S/S 2011 lookbook. I think the Milky Way dress has me convinced that I should try out a maxi length dress. The collection is called Ocean Lemonade and I love the creative description from the designers...

For the spring summer 11 collection, "Ocean Lemonade", the Family Affairs heroine is exploring the South of France with her old battered suitcase. She is feisty rather than sweet and a little defiant. She often doesn't brush her hair. She goes wherever she finds the carefree pleasures of summer on dusty back roads scented with lavender: picking up tomatoes, olive oil, honey soaps.

She collects feathers, picks cornflowers and wild Jasmine to put on a scrubbed wooden table. She makes lemonade in a glass jar, uses whatever she has to hand and bakes something delicious, ties it up in a picnic knapsack and heads to the beach, singing along to Jonathan Richman: "That Summer Feeling: Memory comes taunting, you pick these things apart they're not that appealing, you put them together and you'll get this certain feeling, and that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life..."