Special Envoy in Marrakesh
Yves and I arrived in Marrakesh in February 1966 after a stopover in Tangier by Air France caravan.– recalls Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent. Moroccan passiona collection of memories published on the occasion of the exhibition “Yves Saint Laurent and Morocco” in Majorelle Park in 2010. Of course, we lived in La Mamounia, which was then an old hotel full of the past.’
Fifty-six years later, some 200 guests at the Saint Laurent men’s spring-summer 2023 show, including Catherine Deneuve, lifelong muse, Béatrice Dahl and Dominique Fyke (characters of the series). Euphoria and the face of the latest ad campaign), went on the same journey again… more or less. The Paris-Marrakech flight is now direct, Mamounia is a famous palace, but the spirit of “Ivy”, who died in 2008, still floats over the ocher city. On the cartel in the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech, we can read these words of the couturier:
Source: Le Figaro
