MOROCCAN DREAMING

If you’re looking for a way to legitimise your passion for all things terracotta, a trip to Marrakech has never been timelier. Not only is the city’s newly built Musée Yves Saint Laurent a tonal dream, it’s a feat of modern architecture – the exterior features terracotta bricks made of Moroccan earth, concrete and terrazzo interlaced to resemble woven threads of fabric, with the interior mimicking the lining of a handcrafted YSL jacket. Built next to the famed Majorelle Garden – recognisable for the intense blue hue of the former residence, now a museum, that sits within it and which Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé purchased in 1980 to live and work in – the Musée Yves Saint Laurent contains 4,000sqm of permanent and temporary exhibition space. Along with a revered collection of Yves Saint Laurent’s sketches, garments and accessories that provide an insight into the visionary’s creative process, there’s a 5,000-book library with plenty of fashion tomes (including those on YSL’S oeuvre) to inspire.