For the first time, the finest examples of the pageantry of the culture and heritage of Morocco are presented in Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent Foundation in Paris, with 70% of works from the collection of the Museum of Marrakech Berber-Garden Foundation Majorelle and 30% of the remaining works of the Musée du Quai Branly Museum Bargoin of Clermont-Ferrand and three other private collections.
After the death of Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Bergé hoped that the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech hosts a museum of Berber civilization, a joint project of long standing, who was born in 2011 in the former studio of the painter.
Necklaces weddings, traditional ornaments and holiday clothes: the exhibition explores primarily the central space of women in culture Amazigh Berber to whom she owes her survival through the transmission of know-how traditionally feminine as weaving , pottery and making jewelry and ornaments, basketry, tapestry and also henna tattoos. Tools of everyday life, ritual objects, jewelry and costumes ancestral including rare handiras capes and dresses shawls, met to discuss the traditions of Berber women, sedentary or nomadic Rif to the Sahara, highly distinctive taste for pageantry.
