By Youssef Sourgo
Morocco World News
Casablanca, May 11, 2013
Marrakech hosted May 4 the 17th edition of a key event highlighting Moroccan haute couture: the Moroccan Kaftan.
Fifteen designers took part in this year’s edition, delighting their audience with talent and creativity incarnated in their charming Kaftan designs.
The artistic director of this year's parade was the talented choreographer Malika Zaidi. She is an undisputed leader in the area of scenic and rhythmic delivery. She has also orchestrated the most prestigious international shows and has accompanied such stars as Puff Daddy, 50cts, Jermaine Jackson, Kanye West, Craig David and the Gypsy Kings.
In this year’s edition, talented Moroccan designers proved their skill and creativity in accomplishing such an intricate fusion of modern fashion and tradition, adding more elegance to the Moroccan Kaftan, astounding the diverse audience that attended the event.
While Kaftan 2012 chose the prominent and great traveler Ibn Batouta as its principal theme, this year’s edition chose “Legendary Women” as its central theme, focusing on eminent female figures who are universally recognized for fashion achievement.
The talented designers were inspired by the greatness and beauty of those legendary women. With their creative semi-traditional, semi-modern designs, the universal dimension of the Moroccan Kaftan channeled Marilyn Monroe, la Kahina, Marie Antoinette, Nefertiti, Oum Kalthoum and Coco Chanel, among many other timeless female figures in history.
The impressively coherent patterns of colors, the intricate fabric combinations, tastefully selected ornaments and elaborately designed shapes all unfolded during the event. In Kaftan 2013, the Moroccan Kaftan proved an elegant ambassador of women’s universal beauty.
While the exhibition celebrated female figures universally recognized for their elegance, originality, beauty and idiosyncratic femininity, the majesty of women in general was recognized during this year’s edition.
"These fascinating women wrote their fabulous or tragic futures in gold, and sometimes in blood,” said Khalid Bazid, director of the press group Charactères and director of the Kaftan event since 2007. “The woman is neither a complement of man, nor his half; the woman is society,” added Mr. Bazid.
Therefore, with women at its center, Kaftan 2013 sought to grant an ample scope of creativity for all its talented designers. “It is a tribute to the idea that Kaftan 2013 chose this theme offering to fashion an exciting and inexhaustible source of inspiration," shared Mr. Bazid, affirming the significance of this year’s theme for Kaftan.
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