Mi Golondrina
Oaxacan style, by way of Dallas.
Oaxacan style, by way of Dallas.
Keeping the cowboy legend alive.
The romance of doing everything by hand.
How the drought led to a revival of America’s only native caffeinated drink.
Because you know you’ve always wanted to kick it up.
When paddling on plastic just won’t do.
These San Antonio leather-workers keep it all in the family.
Corpus Christi fisherman John Garcia’s painted creations are off the hook.
Something’s burning in Amarillo.
A novice Austin jewelry maker catches Anthropologie’s eye.
Keeping movable type alive in the age of laser printers.
Houston bladesmith Russell Montgomery finds calm living on the edge.
The simple beauty of wood and wire and not much else.
The earthy wonders of clay.
Handcrafted bows that never miss their mark.
The happy marriage of performance and aesthetics.
A Houston textile designer shows that the art of dyeing isn't dying.
The science and mystery of the luthier craft.
Handcrafted leather bags that tell a story.
Tom Sterne makes waves in the Gulf.
Kathie Sever’s nice threads.
For the longest time, quinceañeras were simple, down-home celebrations held in parish halls and backyards. Then along came the stretch Humvees, the carriages and thrones, the choreographed dance routines, the smoke machines, the climbing walls, and the dinners for four hundred bedazzled guests. One thing remains the same, though: It’s
These twelve Texas artisans herald the victory of man over machine, carefully crafting wood, metal, or stone into items for your home and hearth that are tomorrow’s heirlooms today.
The ceramic designs created by these four Texas studios will look great in your kitchen or bathroom—and except for their shape, there’s nothing square about them.
Has the best-known Latina writer of our day painted herself into a corner?
Master builders.
Accessories for sexual adventurers, columns for your Craftsman bungalow, tasteful tables made from old manhole covers: You can find it all on this reborn Houston strip.
For her history of Texas fashion (see “The Way We Wore”), senior editor Anne Dingus began with—who else?—Sam Houston. “He’s always a good place to start,” she says, “and he distinguished himself by being sartorially flamboyant.” Then, drawing on library research and her personal archive of vintage postcards, ads,
Growing up in Chihuahua, Mexico, Victor Alfaro based his sartorial education on all the American fashion magazines; today the 33-year-old creative director of the New York clothier TSE Cashmere is so busy designing his own line of chic clothes and accessories that he barely has time to read. After a
Why hire an architect, an interior designer, a graphic designer, and an image consultant when one person can do the whole job? That’s the idea 29-year-old Trinh Pham has been building on since she earned an architecture degree from the University of Houston in 1991. Her first big job had
We’ve found thirty shops just across the Rio Grande where you can buy everything from hand-carved furniture to whimsical walking sticks. The quality is high, the prices are right, and you don't have to pay in pesos.
Carolyn Farb wrote the book on charity fundraising, so when she calls, the stars come out to play, and Houston�s high society has a ball.
In an era of AIDS and family values, who’s crazy enough to have a tattoo? Some twenty million Americans, including sports stars, Academy award winners, the CEO of Nike, a Republican Secretary of State—and me.
Fashionably affordable.
There haven’t been many successful sister acts in the world of modeling, but don’t tell that to the Parkses. Farm girls who grew up near Arlington in the tiny community of Webb, 20-year-old Wende, 22-year-old Becky, 23-year-old Kelly, and 26-year-old Kimberly piled into the front seat of a pickup truck
Bob Ragan’s nationally renowned, intricately detailed stone carvings have a distinctly European look. Is it any wonder he lives in a place called Florence?
“I always liked Western buckles,” says Robert Brandes, “and then one day it dawned on me to ask, ‘Hey—who makes these things?’” The Austin collector-investor set out to learn more about the silversmiths and engravers who made their mark on cowboy adornment in the form of weighty, elaborately decorated rodeo-style
The rodeo belt buckle is prized by cowboys and collectors alike. By the look of these handcrafted samples, it’s easy to see why.
The celebrity realtor as realtor celebrity.
At the Society of Martha Washington’s annual Colonial Pageant and Ball, Webb County debutantes commemorate the Father and Mother of Our Country.
The boy wonder of style.
Building a better Fort Worth.
Only sixteen, and very much in Vogue,
Turning denim into dollars for AIDS.
The secret to a well-appointed Texas Christmas.
Long forgotten, Western artist Till Goodan’s bucking broncs and stalwart cowboys are bringing big money and sparking a revival.
In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.
There’s primeval magic in ordinary fashions.
Travels with Eric Kimmel, l’enfant terrible of Dallas, Paris, and a Limoges jail.
She might have long legs, blond hair, and eyes as blue as a Panhandle sky. But a Texas woman isn’t really beautiful unless she works at it.