"It's the dress you want when you're 20, and the dress you'll keep till you're 70," says Vogue fashion director Lucinda Chambers of Dovima Paris, one of France's newest luxury ready-to-wear lines of elegant dresses done simply. When [...]

New Orleans sculptor, photographer and set design artist Elizabeth Shannon took a plunge into the fashion world with her first runway show Saturday at Fashion Week New Orleans. Sharon Litwin interviewed the designer pre-show; now Shannon weighs in with [...]

To hear Sharon Litwin's interview with Elizabeth Shannon on WWNO-FM, click here. Friends and admirers of New Orleans-based sculptor, photographer and set design artist Elizabeth Shannon have grown used to her decades-long personal fashion statement: black, black and [...]

My cousin Sandra dragged me to an opening at Longue Vue House and Gardens one Thursday night recently. All the way out to Bamboo Road I asked, "Now who are we going to see?" She said that former [...]

FRIDAY / La Nouvelle-Orleans: There’s no denying that New Orleans’ culture is inspired by the French. Architecture, street  names, wine at any time, just to name a few aspects. This Friday, the Alliance Francaise of New Orleans is [...]

Whether you’re stopping in at Promenade fabric store on St. Charles Avenue for five yards of Chanel or a spool of thread, Herbert Halpern welcomes you warmly. He looks a little like a fashionable Albert Einstein. For 45 [...]