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Not Ready to Part with Your Sweats? This Trend Has You Covered

Not Ready to Part with Your Sweats? This Trend Has You Covered

A spring look by Brunello Cucinelli

READY TO VENTURE back into the public eye? From happy-hour haute to glorified pajamas-gone-glam, our style guru collected five must-shop trends to revamp your style. For those not yet prepared to part with their sweats, try a chic upgrade! A trend of matching sets — like ones from Brunello Cucinelli or Nanuska — provides both cozy comfort and a sense of style ready for reengaging with reality.

Orlan crinkle satin shirt, $300, by Alexis

Makiko crinkle satin pant, $260, by Alexis

Tippi top, $425, by Nanuska

Tupsa satin trouser, $510, by Nanuska

Hair clip, $400, by Gucci

Le Petit Riviera bag, $330, by Jacquemus

Wedge, $770, by Valentino

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Houston Ballet Kicks Off Stanton Welch’s 20th Season with Shakespeare, Celebrations and Premieres

Houston Ballet Principal Karina González as Titania and former Soloist Aaron Robison as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (photo by Amitava Sarkar, 2014); and González with former Principal Joseph Walsh in Welch's Tu Tu (photo by Ron McKinney, 2010)

STANTON WELCH IS now in his 20th season with Houston Ballet. It’s a cause for celebration, and the Company’s 2023-24 season is exactly that: a celebration of creative storytelling, as well as his and new co-artistic director Julie Kent’s shared commitment to bring top-notch classics to the stage alongside newly commissioned works by emerging choreographers.

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Reflecting on Losses from the Winter Street Studios Fire, Erika Alonso Pops Up with New Paintings

Alonso, inset, and her acrylic-on-canvas painting 'Birds'

BASED IN HOUSTON, Cuban-American painter Erika Alonso is a self-taught, self-described “painterly painter,” with a playful and very idiosyncratic take on abstract expressionism, mark making, and automatism, where the artist works quickly and intuitively, relying upon the subconscious to guide the artistic process. Her work can be found in numerous private collections across the United States and Europe, including that of beloved Houston collector and art fanatic Lester Marks. On Friday, Sept 8., from 7-9pm at Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Alise Art Group's Art House presents Alonso’s solo exhibition Birds Are People Too (And Other Thoughts . . . ).

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