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Sleeveless Chic: How to Go Back to Style This Summer

Sleeveless Chic: How to Go Back to Style This Summer

A spring look by Chanel

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. Gone is the cold shoulder — the sleeveless trend is as hot as it gets! Vaccine-ready shoulder-baring blouses, tees and tanks by designers from Balmain to Retrofete can be dressed up or down. And as denim and trouser rises get higher, so does the crop.

Paisley-print canvas top, $790, by Gucci

Viscose top, $298, by The SEI

Cropped denim top, $1,095, by Balmain

Padded-shoulder French cherry top, $225, by Philip Lim

Étoile Filante earrings, $15,259, by Chanel

Handbag, $350, by Coach

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Day Out with JVN Headlines HSPVA’s Record-Breaking Lunch and Auction

Bob Eury, Deborah Keyser & James Stafford

HSPVA CELEBRATED FIVE years at its Downtown campus with a 1920s-jazz-club-inspired luncheon for 300 supporters. Guests were transported to the days of swing dancing as a student-conducted band played music by Duke Ellington, while performers, donning showgirl and flapper costumes from the high school’s performance of After Midnight, danced along.

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Rising Opera Star and Old Soul Adam Kral Makes His Mainstage HGO Debut

Phoebe Rourke

Houstonian Kral, photographed at Lynn Wyatt Square across from HGO’s home at the Wortham

HOUSTON GRAND OPERA closes its critically acclaimed 2023-24 season of warhorses, Wagner and commissions with the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, The Sound of Music (April 26-May 12).

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