Collect Calling
A local lawyer opens the doors to her museumworthy fashion collection, for sale by appointment or online.
By Michele Meyer // Photography by Phoebe Rourke-Ghabriel
Houston September 2017 | Modern Luxury
A nondescript high-rise on Houston's Southwest Freeway seems an unlikely spot to find fine fashions of decades past. Yet, in a 5,000-square-foot storeroom-cum-showroom are 12,000 gowns, caftans, sunglasses and accessories. Some are haute couture. Many are not. All tell a story.
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