Yvonne LaFleur pushed the envelope and broke barriers when her Hampson Street store first opened, offering women's jeans at a ...

But when Yvonne LaFleur first opened her eponymous shop 50 years ago, in October of 1969, she specialized in fitted $8 jeans. “They were new … no holes. And I altered them for free,” she ...

These days, Yvonne LaFleur is known for many things in New Orleans shopping circles — her expansive women's boutique and bridal salon (8131 Hampson St., 866-9666; www.yvonnelafleur.com), her ...

Wearing leopard print heels, a chunky gold chain necklace and her signature high chignon, Yvonne LaFleur (8131 Hampson St., 866-9666; www.yvonnelafleur.com) conducts her interview perched on a ...

Wearing leopard print heels, a chunky gold chain necklace and her signature high chignon, Yvonne LaFleur (8131 Hampson St., 866-9666; www.yvonnelafleur.com) conducts her interview perched on a ...

Yvonne LaFleur did not plan to become a social media sensation. But that is what the 78-year-old New Orleans style and fashion icon has become since her Instagram account started in earnest in ...

Yvonne LaFleur did not plan to become a social media sensation. But that is what the 78-year-old New Orleans style and fashion icon has become since her Instagram account started in earnest in ...

Yvonne LaFleur has kept her hair, her signature scent and much of the decor at her boutique on Hampson Street the same for more than 50 years for a simple reason: she likes them the way they are.

Fashion designer Yvonne LaFleur has been honored as Cabrini High School's 2017 alumna of the year. LaFleur graduated from Cabrini in 1965 and matriculated to LSU, where she earned a bachelor's ...

A stalwart soul band hits the House of Blues on an otherwise low-key Tuesday in New Orleans that has post-Jazz-Fest-lull written all over it.