Today is Mardi Gras. I don’t exactly know what that means, but I’m learning. After years in northern Italy, I’m more accustomed to Carnevale, which has much of the same purpose: a celebration of ...
The colors of Mardi Gras first surfaced in New Orleans, but it's not clear why purple, green and gold were chosen. Those colors appeared in 1872 as part of a spectacle honoring the New Orleans visit ...
Not exactly the color scheme for an Architectural Digest layout. Or a red carpet evening. Some might even say the combination is gauche. But if you live in New Orleans, the purple, green and gold ...