All posts by Roz Pactor

About Roz Pactor

I am a fashion and marketing consultant and blogger based in Houston, Texas. With more than three decades of experience in fashion retailing that has spanned Foley’s, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale’s NYC, I have earned a reputation for delivering expertise, energy and enthusiasm to my roster of clients. I have remained closely connected with designer women’s fashion as well as the misses, teens, men’s and children’s apparel and accessories markets from coast to coast.

Not To Miss….Todd Reed is Coming Back To Cotton Club For a Visit, Tomorrow!

The Designer who has created a jewelry collection like no other and offered exclusively at Cotton Club will be here Friday, Nov. 8th for one day only!

Todd Reed

Cotton Club Collection high-end fashion boutique has always been a haven for uniquely talented fashion and fine jewelry designers  and has built quite a reputation as the go-to place in our city for finding just that sophisticated piece of artistic, one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces that stand out in a crowd for being very special. Coming to town […]

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Jewish Community Center’s Book & Art Festival Bringing Celebrities Plus Much More to Our...

Isaac Mizrahi and Gloria Steinem are two of the top tickets to the fair......plus you can purchase special T-shirt to support charity

jcc book fair

Opening Night: Isaac Mizrahi The “Project Runway All Stars” judge will take the stage on Saturday, November 2 at 8:00 PM to discuss his captivating memoir about growing up gay in a Syrian Jewish Orthodox family and the freedom he found through fashion. Mizrahi’s book, I.M.: A Memoir, chronicles his childhood in 1960s Brooklyn, where he […]

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Join Christina Greene For a Special Evening Launching Her Wedding Jewelry at Joan Pillow Bridal

Come see the launch of local Jewlery designer's newest collection designed for her own wedding.....at the Salon where she purchased her dress

Christina Greene

Local jewelry designer, Christina Greene, is launching her 17th addition to her brand since its beginning in 2011 and it could not be more special to the designer. It is her first collection for brides and it was designed for her own very special wedding day last summer in Colorado. The bridal collection was debuted […]

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Italian Cookies Like Your Nona Used to Make

Come have some fun and your family will be thrilled

Italian Cookies

Growing up in an Italian-American home, particularly at this time of year, we anxiously awaited the many batches of homemade Italian cookies that our Grandmothers and Mothers would make. I can still recall that fragrant smell of the baking cookies that filled our home. However, if you are like me and many of my generation, […]

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Stop By Cotton Club Collection This Sunday…

Special party to raise funds for Charity plus lots of fun bites, sips and shopping

Cotton Club FAith in Practice event

This Sunday Cotton Club Collection, one of our fave fashion boutiques on San Felipe in Houston’s River Oaks area, will be hosting a fundraiser for the charity, Faith in Practice and honoring, specifically, the Mann Surgical Team and their patients. Faith in Practice is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian organization that seeks to improve the physical, […]

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It’s a Golden Celebration at Neiman Marcus’ 50th Anniversary Bash

A special evening for me that celebrates Neiman Marcus opening that was my own personal start to a lifetime career in fashion

NM 50

Neiman Marcus’ big move to the Galleria in early 1969 was the biggest story in retail that this city had seen. It moved from its Downtown Houston location on Main Street to Westheimer & Post Oak as an anchor for this new center that was going to be built as an attachment to the store. […]

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Tatcha Founder Vicky Tsai Creates Revolutionary Skin Care Collection While Funding Girls Education

A look back at a memorable visit with a remarkable female entrepreneur

Tatcha

It’s never too late……I feel that to be the most appropriate reason for this story of a very momentous meeting I had several weeks back here in Houston with a remarkable woman. It was a transformative experience that made for a lasting memory. However, since that meeting, life happened and many distractions fell my way […]

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Museum of Fine Arts Houston Introducing “An Impressionist Autumn”….

A Tribute to a Woman Impressionist and a Look inside a Very Private Collection......October 20, 2019 thru January 12, 2020

mfah oct

This has been a month in our city of recognizing very special women. It was just last week that we recognized one of our city founders, C. Baldwin Hotel namesake, Charlotte Baldwin Allen as the unsung hero of the original founders of our Bayou City. Beginning this Sunday, October 20, the Museum of Fine Arts […]

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