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Fabergé is celebrating a unique advancement in its quest to honor the DNA of the vaunted jewelry house with a new partnership with talented designer James Ganh. The London-based young creative of Chinese heritage has been named the firm’s inaugur…
Read MoreOur ballgowns hang limply in the closet and our Judith Leiber minaudieres haven’t seen daylight since March. Gents’ tuxedos are accumulating dust. And there is no immediate end in sight for the termination of our beloved, gilded charitable …
Read MoreFour decades ago, John Travolta and Debra Winger catapulted the Houston social scene into the national spotlight with the star-studded premiere screening of Urban Cowboy and a rollicking country/western after-party at Gilley’s, known then as the …
Read MoreThere are several reasons that I am absolutely mad for Tribute Goods’ latest introduction to its house of fine Italian woven linens — the Magnolia bedding collection. It could be because I hail from Louisiana where the magnolia is the state flowe…
Read MoreDespite COVID-19, 2020 has been a rather remarkable year for luxury homebuilder Al Ross. Since January he has sold three multi-million dollar homes and just last week placed another spanking new River Oaks mansion on the market with a listing price of …
Read MoreWe have to wonder if Chris Shepherd ever sleeps. Consider the Houston chef’s ever-inventive strategies for Underbelly Hospitality’s restaurants surviving during COVID-19, his commitment to Southern Smoke and now his latest venture — conduct…
Read MoreTwo Houston favorites — Zadok Master Jewelers and Trees For Houston — are joining forces in a very clever partnership that weds engagement rings with tree planting. Buy an engagement ring from Zadok and the family will donate a sapling tree to be plant…
Read MoreIt took two years from their first meeting in 2014 before Victoria Pappas of Houston’s Pappas restaurant empire and rock star chef Aaron Bludorn of New York’s Michelin-starred Café Boulud had their first date. Fast forward to 2020, the coup…
Read MoreOnly 24 hours before opening his latest Houston restaurant, chef Ronnie Killen, fresh from an emergency run to Home Depot, blows into the eatery on Heights Boulevard steaming, not only from the mid-August heat but also from the inevitable frustrations …
Read MoreIt goes against all conventional thinking, but after dismal sales in Houston’s luxury real estate market in April, May and June — a tumble attributed to COVID-19 — July proved to be a blockbuster in terms of sales of homes priced at or above $750…
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