It is customary for the mayor of New Orleans to award ceremonial “keys to the city” to visiting dignitaries, celebrities and philanthropists. Now that a new mayor has the keys to the castle, as the saying goes, she has collaborated with Adler’s Jewelry to create a new design that symbolizes the change she aims to bring to the city.
Mayor Helena Moreno presented 70 such keys to Carnival royalty during the 2026 Mardi Gras season.
The sleek, bronze-toned keys include a glowing fleur-de-lis on one end and a stylized cityscape on the other, connected by the Mississippi River, winding along the key’s shank. The smooth curves and streamlined abstraction lend the key an art deco vibe, though Tiffany Adler, designer of the new key, said she didn’t have the elegant, early 20th-century style in mind…