“Chris Owens is historic. She’s the city. She’s new world, and she’s sexy. She’s hot, she is champagne. She’s our Coco Chanel and people love her and still do,” said Valerius.

First 2025 measles case reported in New Orleans area “Love how we honor Chris Owens’s legacy in New Orleans because she really was a big part of Easter in New Orleans and in the French Quarter.

Speaking with the Historic New Orleans Collection in 2014, Chris Owens described her entry into the echelon of the city’s entertainment icons. She's the subject of this edition of NOLA Life Stories.