In the back of Emily Foley's Bywater shotgun home, racks of rhinestones, feathers and glitter lay in wait, ready to dazzle each year when Carnival season arrives. In New Orleans, costuming is a ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The magic of Mardi Gras doesn’t happen overnight - it’s meticulously stitched, shaped, and sewn together in the bustling workspace of D&D Creations. For more than a decade, this ...

Mardi Gras looms mere days away. Soon, the nonstop party will start in earnest — which means there’s precious little time left to throw together a Fat Tuesday costume. But fear not, procrastinators.

For 12 years Karen Thibodeaux has made Mardi Gras costumes for people to wear as they chase chickens. Well, there’s more to it than that. In Branch, in rural Acadia Parish, Thibodeaux and her staff ...

GRAND MARAIS, La. — It's no secret that Mardi Gras is Louisiana's "thing" — and while it's a BIG deal in Acadiana, perhaps no one does it bigger than Grand Marais — and in the most literal sense of ...

EUNICE, La. — For the past six years, The Eunice Mardi Gras Association has partnered with a local boutique shop, Beaucoup, to display traditional Courir de Mardi Gras costumes right just before ...

The Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans runs from January 6 to February 17, 2026, with major events in the final week ...

The first Mardi Gras balls in South Mississippi were presented more than 100 years ago and continue today with pageantry, secrecy and elaborate costumes. The pages of the Daily Herald and Sun Herald — ...

The colorful celebration, also known as Fat Tuesday, is held annually on the day before the fasting season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday. The celebrations are most festive in New Orleans’ ...

There's a place in Baton Rouge where the party never ends, where kings and queens always reign in rhinestone splendor and the Leviathan float never stops rolling through the streets of New Orleans.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The first Mobile Mardi Gras Parade is only a few days away, but Mardi Gras balls for the 2025 season are already in full swing. “An occasion for a person is very special, and we ...