This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS – When your collection of Mardi ...

Happy Mardi Gras to all the glue gun wielders and DIY costumers in New Orleans. Here are a few that caught our eye. The members of Krewe des Fleurs make their own flower costumes every year. Photo: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The WDSU team showed off their Mardi Gras 2020 costumes, and this year they put a special "Ain't dere no more" twist on them!Check out Heath, Kweilyn, Randi and the rest of their crew sport some of ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The Majestic Krewe of Aurora is the founding Krewe of Mardi Gras southeast Texas. Every year they host the grand ball, and the Saturday Grand Parade, and dress up in intricate ...

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 ...

Beads and floats are normally the first things people think of when someone mentions Mardi Gras. But a traditional Mardi Gras in Cajun country looks a little bit different. Every year, communities in ...

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 ...

I was once able to shake off five days of Carnival celebration on Mardi Gras morning for one last day of colorful mayhem. That was 10 years ago, when I was still new to New Orleans. I was living in ...

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 ...