Karen Thibodeaux, the owner of Vacajun is known for making costumes for the Mardi Gras season. It was orginally just a sewing business at her home, but it progressed to Mardi Gras ball gowns and ...

This story from The Times-Picayune archives was originally published in 2019. When one of the traditional Carnival parades rambles through New Orleans’ streets in the big lead up to Mardi Gras, the ...

EUNICE, La. (KLFY) — The Courir de Mardi Gras tradition is still celebrated in Cajun Country, along with its traditional costumes. However, there are few traditional costume makers left. Susana Ortego ...

Happy Mardi Gras to all the glue gun wielders and DIY costumers in New Orleans. Here are a few that caught our eye. The ...

IOTA, La. (KLFY)– Costumes are a large part of the Mardi Gras experience. One family in Iota keeps the culture of Mardi Gras alive by making traditional Carnival garb. The Miller family showed Gerald ...

With just one word, Zozo Huval can imagine and create a Mardi Gras courir costume — the shirt and pants covered in fringe, the capuchon hat and mask all designed to disguise the wearer. Huval is ...

It’s difficult to predict exactly where the wandering Mardi Gras Indians, also called Black Masking Indians, will appear, though North Claiborne Avenue near St. Bernard Avenue is a good bet. The ...

Once a year, New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood comes alive in a rainbow of intricately beaded costumes and feathers, paraded through the streets in a mesmerizing “strut.” In a city known for its ...

NEW ORLEANS — You could see some of the most elaborate costumes at the annual Bourbon Street Awards on Fat Tuesday. They are costumes you can't buy at a store. "I was doing eight hour days for the ...

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 — ...

San Nicholas was a New Orleans character if there ever was one — the kind who could talk for hours about his life and have the listeners convinced by conversation’s end that they needed to write a ...

People donning skeleton masks and antlers on their heads gathered in New Orleans’ historic Treme neighborhood as the sun rose Tuesday, determined to beat an expected storm and celebrate Mardi Gras Day ...