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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. View all posts by Roz Pactor →

Fine Arts

The Much Anticipated Nancy & Rich Kinder Building Opens To The Public and It Is Spectacular

Not traveling.....feel the joy this holiday weekend visiting the new Kinder Building

Sunday, November 22nd, 2020

As someone who lives ‘next door’ to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and have watched almost daily with anticipation and curiosity as each area of the now complete Susan and Fayez Sarofim Campus has been completed and enhanced, I feel a true attachment to its newest addition, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, opening […]

Dining

Popular Caterer and Soufflé Queen Launches New Venture

Elizabeth Swift's Fab Fête frozen soufflés are the missing link to epic cheese boards

If we have mastered anything this year, it’s how to pivot. Arguably the most widely used word of the year, businesses large and small have had to dance their way around unprecedented challenges and push all creative boundaries. 2020 has forced everyone to think outside of the box, but for events expert, Elizabeth Swift Copeland, […]

Dining

2020….A Unique Year Calls For A Different Kind of Turkey Day For So Many

Giving Thanks this year on a smaller scale can mean a change of approach to dining......let our local restaurants lend a helping hand!

Sunday, November 15th, 2020

If you’re like me you have had a difficult time deciding just what to do about this Thanksgving holiday that is approaching very quickly. It has always been our family’s favorite holiday and in fact, having my traditional Thanksgiving feast with many family and friends has been my very favorite gathering of the holidays and […]

Events

Women of Substance 2020 Celebrates the Many Outstanding Women of Houston and their Accomplishments

This popular luncheon went virtual this year and raised lots of money for the Mission of Yahweh!

The always fabulously entertaining and glammed up 4th annual Women of Substance Luncheon, like so many charitable events this year, became a Virtual Presentation on November 6. Viewers heeded the cause to support The Mission of Yahweh, that has been sheltering homeless women and children for 59 years. At last count, funds raised from the […]

Events

Rockin’ Resillience…..An Always Fun Luncheon Was Virtual This Year

Annual Luncheon benefiting The Women's Fund

Thursday, November 12th, 2020

It was not your basic Sunday morning on November 1. We knew we had a fun lunch/brunch time ahead of us and we certainly did. At noon 250 virtual guests were up and rocking the house by dancing and singing along with Houston’s very own and Season 12 finalist of American Idol, Vincent Powell, in […]

Food and Nutrition

Putting Out the Fire in 2020…..Nutritionally Speaking

Read this by our friend Catherine Kruppa of Advice for Eating.....all about inflamation that stress can cause and how to help combat it

Sunday, November 1st, 2020

2020 has been a year like no other. Most of us have experienced some type of stress that we would describe as chronic. We have all experienced loss whether it be loss of: jobs, important events, relationships, health, and loved ones. Our chronic stress may be caused by uncertainly or unsettledness. Whatever your chronic stressors […]

Shopping

Round Top…….Shopping Destination That Has Long Been on My Must See List

After a decade I finally made it back to visit, shop and dine on all things Round Top

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

For many reasons, mostly of late, I have been traveling in the month of October in Italy to shop (sob!) and can’t work a visit into Round Top Texas into my schedule. Not sure why April hasn’t worked but always something!! This has raised my desire to visit Round Top to a very high spot […]

Dining

Dine-around……a long-awaited re-visit to some local restaurant favorites

A look at some of the restaurants we visited plus more to come soon......it was a week-long eatorama!

Sunday, October 18th, 2020

Like many of us that have been in our Covid survival mode for the last several months, we have spent a great amount of time supporting our local restaurants from afar. Yes, for our family, restaurant dining has largely been restricted to rare outdoor dining(still our favorite way to dine-in) but mostly curbside pick-up and […]

Events

Barbara Bush Literacy Luncheon Goes Virtual….

Don't miss this annual luncheon stacked with amazing speakers.....in the comfort of your own home, October 22

Saturday, October 17th, 2020

The Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation is pleased to announce their 5th annual Power of Literacy Luncheon will now take place as a virtual “literacy fête” on Thursday, October 22. The signature event, chaired by Betty Hrncir and Sidney Faust, shines a light on the importance of reading in our community and supports the Foundation’s […]

Events

Memorial Hermann’s Annual Breast Cancer Luncheon Certainly Dazzled…

Filled with Many Virtual Surprises and a Very Direct Message

Monday, October 12th, 2020

The importance of maintaining regular mammograms and early detection even during the COVID-19 pandemic, was the message of this virtual event. It was a message that registered clearly with me as I had just made a trip for that procedure which I, like many I am sure, had delayed due to Covid. Memorial Hermann reinforced […]