our magical Marrakesh bohemian fashion shopping tour

In May, Imports from Marrakesh curated an exclusive 'Medina Shopping Tour'  for L-Atitude, an online women's e-commerce site that fuses luxury fashion and travel, and ASMALLWORLD, an online private invitation-only club for extraordinary travel experiences. The club met in Marrakesh to celebrate their recent redesign and to launch 'subscription memberships'. ASMALLWORLD members stayed at the majestic Taj Palace...

1. 'The Taj Palace Marrakech offers breathtaking views of the prominent snow capped Atlas Mountains. Opulent and majestic, the Palace unfolds like a beautiful painting, featuring all the splendours of Moorish, Indian and Venetian architecture. '

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This group of beautiful people included artists, actresses, models, tastemakers, Vogue it girls, and even rock stars.  A perfect audience for our magical Marrakesh bohemian shopping tour! Mohamed and our team of guides and bodyguards met everyone at ten o'clock at the Taj Palace. We piled into Mercedes vans & headed off to hunt for haute hippie treasures in the Marrakesh Medina. 

Here is our special curated list of our favorite shops for caftans, bags, jewelry, slippers and exotic home accessories: 

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 "The most becoming fashion ever invented: the languor of the seraglio clings to them; leisure and repose emanate from them. The classic robes of the Near East, they are now suddenly all over the contemporary map-the inspiration of great dressmakers and every woman's discovery in beauty. They go anywhere.” The Beautiful People in Caftans by Diana Vreeland VOGUE July 1966

Moroccan Caftans

Bouriad Karim

Medina

Rue Fatima Zohra R’mila, Dar El Bacha

212 (0) 24-38-65-17

Perfect caftans to wear to the beach or to a party.  Real gypset style...

Dar Caftan

on Rue Mouassine

KIS Boutique

36, Derb Fhal Chidmi,

Marrakech Medina

Quartier Mouassine

+212 (0)675480018

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Moroccan Baskets

Souk al Ghaloul

The best area in the Medina for wildly embellished Moroccan baskets

as well as simple plain straw ones  that are perfect for the beach or farmers market.  We also dropped by tiny souks packed with embroidered leather bags and embellished belts.

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Antique Berber Jewelry

El Abidi Nasser Eddine

At the south end of rue Semmarine in the medina, shop no. 9

Phone 0524/441066

{My favorite antique jewelry shop in Marrakech….}

+ we browsed the jewelry shops near the Mouassine mosque

Boutique Bel Hadj

21-23 Souk Founouk Ouarazi, Bab Ftouh

212-24 44 51 43

good place for antique jewelry

9  Gestie Feltekatze 

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 Bel Madani  for  Moroccan Teapots

& the Bab Ftouh Souk for Moroccan mint tea glasses

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and everyone stocked up on 

Moroccan Babouche Slippers

at Haj Ahmed Oueld Lafram

49-51 Souk Smata

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Our favorite babouche slippers are covered with vintage Moroccan caftan fabric

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One of a kind hand-made silk tassels & zillij mosiac tile

Exotic Home Accessories

Souk Foundouk Ouarzazi ( off Place Bab Ftouh)

Enter through the mosaic arch at #56

This cluttered courtyard holds a collection of tiny dusty shops filled with odd treasures: here you can sift through stashes of  ethnic jewelry, bags, belts and vintage Moroccan tea-trays, rose-water sprinklers,  handmade silk tassels and ceremonial tea containers in silver, brass and copper….

Soufiane

13 Souk des Tapis

Rahba Kedima

061 85 34 97

The best place to go for the exquisite white Moroccan wedding blankets with silver sequins. 

A tiny shop but they also have a couple of secret showrooms filled with an amazing selection of Moroccan Beni Ourain carpets…

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Actress Dianna Agron & silky soft shimmery Beni Ourain carpets

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Alisa Ng founder of L-Atitude #Morccanmoments

We ended our shopping tour  with sweet mint tea 

and  a spectacular Berber rug show at one of Soufiane's secret showrooms in the medina...

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a distant view of the Atlas Mountains from the Taj Hotel

“There is no guide-book to Morocco, and no way of knowing, once one has left Tangier behind, where the long trail over the Rif is going to land one, in the sense understood by any one accustomed to European certainties. The air of the unforeseen blows on one from the roadless passes of the Atlas.”
 In Morocco by Edith Wharton

PHOTOS
1. Taj Hotel Marrakech via Lorre White: Guru of Luxury
2. Moroccan roses in marble fountain 
3. Photo by Imports from Marrakesh
4. Moroccan Holiday Vogue Italia,  May 2009 
Model: Sasha Pivovarova | Photographer: Steven Meisel 
5.  L-Atitude shopping tour led by Mohamed Elmaarouf  photo by Imports from Marrakesh 
6. Moroccan Baskets via pinterest
7. Asmallworld members entering the souks... photo by Imports from Marrakesh 
8.  Moroccan Jewelry via moon to moon
9. Hippie chic in antique Moroccan Berber jewelry by Gestie Feltekatze
10. Tastermakers shoppping for teapots in a secret souk...photo by Imports from Marrakesh 
11. Pink roses & mint tea via Tobi Fairley's  instagram
12. Moroccan slippers covered in vintage caftan fabric via pinterest
13. One of a kind Moroccan tassels against a zillij mosiac tile wall via pinterest
14.  Dianne Argon shopping for Beni Ourain carpets via Marie Claire
15. L-Atitude's founder Alisa Ng, Photo by Kym Canter via Marie Claire
16. more Moroccan mint tea with pink roses
17. Photo by Imports from Marrakesh