Moroccans Give Fresh Twist to Kaftan - An-Nour

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An-Nour
January 2009
JOKES
Marriage Counseling
A husband and wife came for counseling
after 15 years of marriage. When asked
what the problem was, the wife went into
a passionate, painful tirade listing every
problem they had ever had in the 15 years
they had been married.
She went on and on and on: neglect, lack
of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling
unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry
list of unmet needs she had endured over the
course of their marriage.
Finally, after allowing this to go on for a
sufficient length of time,
the therapist got up, walked around the desk
and, after asking the wife to stand, embraced
and kissed her passionately as her husband
watched with a raised eyebrow. The woman
shut up and quietly sat down as though in
a daze.
The therapist turned to the husband and said,
'This is what your wife needs at least three
times a week. Can you do this?'
The husband thought for a moment and
replied, 'Well, I can drop her off here on
Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays,
I fish.
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"Hello."
"Mrs. Sanders, please."
"Speaking."
"Mrs. Sanders, this is
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his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from
another
Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now
uncertain which one belongs to
your
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not too good."
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks
nervously.
"Well, one of the specimens tested positive
for Alzheimer's, and the other one tested
positive for HIV.
We can't tell which is which."
"That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?"
questioned Mrs. Sanders. "Normally we can,
but Medicare will only pay for these
expensive tests one time."
"Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
"The folks at Medicare recommend that you
drop your husband off somewhere in the
middle of town. If he finds
his way home, don't sleep with him."
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Moroccans Give Fresh Twist to
Kaftan
Designers’ kaftan creations get more audacious, modern, European,
lighter, at Casablanca fashion show.
For centuries it has been the sartorial standard
for women's wear in Morocco. Now a group
of Moroccan fashion designers say it's time
to give the kaftan a modern twist.
The third annual edition of Mode Made in
Morocco, organised by Maroc Premium
magazine and held over the weekend in
Casablanca, featured eight designers keen
to show that fashion and tradition can thrive
together.
"Moroccan designers are getting more
and more orders from abroad," said
Michele Desmottes, the fashion show's
director. "There's exceptional creativity in
Morocco."
Her view is shared by the Parisian couturier
Dominique Sirop, the show's guest of
honour.
"For three years, we've been seeing a real
emergence of Moroccan designers, worthy
of what is happening in other countries," he
said. "They prove that Morocco is not just
the sun, tajine and the kaftan."
If the fabrics looked traditional with their
embroidery and shimmering colors, the
tailoring was much more contemporary,
with bustiers and short skirts contrasting
with the common flowing kaftan.
Designers such as Jamal Daoudi and Nabil
Dahani still draw inspiration from Morocco,
but as they work in Paris, their creations seem
more audacious, more modern, lighter, and
indeed more European.
Hassan Tanner took home the Jean-Louis
Scherrer prize for his dresses that were light
and closely cut to the body -- perhaps the most
radical designs to be seen at the weekend's
show.
Creations by Marrakesh-based Frederique
Birkemeyer were equally feminine, rich in
embroidery and inlay.
One wonders what Yves Saint Laurent would
have thought. The legendary French designer,
who died in Paris in June aged 71, kept
a second home in Marrakech, and many of
his best creations took inspiration from the
kaftan.
Menswear got a look-in at this year's Mode
Made in Morocco as well, with Tangiers native
Salima Salima Abdel-Wahab sending out two
highly original outfits light years from that
classic desert robe, the djellaba.
Organizers nevertheless unanimously regretted
a lack of support for the show this year
from both the government and the garment
industry.
"It is time to wake up and to encourage
individual talent," Desmottes said, as Sirop
underlined the role that fashion can play "in
the economic development of the country."