Fashionista reporter Jonathan Square features the Alison L. Parker’s costuming of the Slave Rebellion Reenactment.

“The city post-Katrina had a very bohemian, anything goes, anti-bureaucracy feel,” says Parker. “I was in a bar where someone walked in with a monkey on their shoulder, and no one batted an eye. It was the norm. And I thought, ‘I could live here.'”

Alison L. Parker, costume designer for the Slave Rebellion Reenactment