The store offers an extensive inventory beyond traditional Mardi Gras decorations, including "all types of beads, trinkets, T-shirts and other items" for decoration and parade floats. This year ...

His white mantle featured the same motif as the queen ... His collar represented his 50 years of involvement in Mardi Gras, having restarted the Krewe of Jean Lafitte ball in 1975.

For more than 15 years, Colleen Phillips and her mother Valerie Smith with D-Val Designs have provided Mardi Gras royalty with extravagant costumes. The process begins with a conversation with each ...