When Yves Saint Laurent first arrived in Marrakech in February 1966, the city was still a secret passed quietly among a coterie of artists and wanderers. He and his partner Pierre Bergé checked into La Mamounia - then a faded remnant of its glamorous past - and within days, they had bought their first home: Dar el-Hanch, the House of the Snake, named for a large serpent Saint Laurent painted across its living room wall.
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Let’s trace those lines, from opulent gardens to hidden doorways, and see Marrakech through his eyes. This isn’t just a travel guide: it’s a map to a creative world, a way of reading a city through the lens of the designer it transformed.
