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Model for a Cause: Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Model for a Cause: Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Oct 16, 2019 | Events, Fashion & Style, San Antonio

For the past three years, every October I have had the honor of playing model for the day and walking in the Bexar County Family Justice Center’s Annual Fashion Show and Luncheon. While the day full of hair, makeup, and runways is fun, there are also always...
San Antonio Fashion Awards and FGI’s 30th Anniversary: How to wear orthodontic bands for formal events

San Antonio Fashion Awards and FGI’s 30th Anniversary: How to wear orthodontic bands for formal events

Oct 9, 2019 | Beauty, Fashion & Style, San Antonio

A couple months ago Dr. Hembree at Ferris Orthodontics started me on rubber bands to compliment my progress with adult braces. This new layer of responsibility has meant toting around little bags of spare orthodontic bands and a handy little tool for applying them to...
HAUTE TIP: Kendra Scott announces Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute at UT Austin

HAUTE TIP: Kendra Scott announces Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute at UT Austin

Oct 1, 2019 | Events, Fashion & Style, Haute Tip, True Beauty

Women of the world – unite! Kendra Scott, known mostly for her dainty baubles and self-made success story, held an event last week at the University of Texas at Austin to announce the Kendra Scott Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute (WEL). The WEL...
How to buy your first (or 100th) pair of cowboy boots with Tecovas

How to buy your first (or 100th) pair of cowboy boots with Tecovas

Aug 27, 2019 | Designer Dish, Fashion & Style, San Antonio

When I first moved to San Antonio nine years ago, I was daunted at the prospect of purchasing my first pair of cowboy boots. I grew up on a farm in Indiana, sure, but cowboy boots do not maintain the same level of popularity and passion as they do here in Texas. Not...
Doors opening: A trip to NYC with FGI!

Doors opening: A trip to NYC with FGI!

May 28, 2019 | Events, Fashion & Style, San Antonio, Travel

If you remember way back in 2015, I proudly announced I had joined an organization called Fashion Group International – San Antonio with the mission of designing the future of fashion in San Antonio. 4 years later, this passion project has come a long way....
Raising Texan Girls: Cora’s Introduction to James Avery

Raising Texan Girls: Cora’s Introduction to James Avery

May 10, 2019 | Family, Fashion & Style, Motherhood, San Antonio

There are plenty of ways that my girls are growing up differently than I did. Their childhood is worlds apart, actually, in the literal and figurative sense. I grew up in the cornfields of Indiana, swinging from willow tree branches in the summer and sledding down cow...
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Haute in Texas is where savvy public relations meets passionate blogging influence. Owner Aquila Mendez-Valdez splits her time between the Haute in Texas blog and the Haute in Texas public relations consulting business. She writes on fashion, beauty, and motherhood, and helps her clients to achieve their business goals both online and in the community. We’re glad you’re here; come join us in the pursuit of the haute life.
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