Moroccan kaftans and Marrakech-made clothes: five labels to buy from

The kaftan is ivory, worked from collar to hem in dark green embroidery, with a matching belt and wide sleeves banded in the same green. It comes from Bouchra Filali Lahlou in Casablanca, where the house works complex hand embroidery and precious stones into the finest Italian fabrics.

Bouchra Filali Lahlou grew up in Fez, where her father manufactured fabric. Her maison makes the Moroccan kaftan, the one-piece kaftan, the djellaba, kimono sets, traditional jewellery and bridal veils with Moroccan artisans, and receives clients by appointment at two showrooms in Casablanca. Her site lists a Vogue Arabia wedding editorial among her press. Prices are given by the house on request.

Every textile at Marrakshi Life is woven on traditional flatbed looms in its own atelier in Marrakech's industrial quarter, by more than eighty artisans, master weavers and tailors among them. Randall Bachner and Nicholas Minucciani founded the label in 2013. The Caftan is handwoven cotton, boxy and short-sleeved with a pleated yoke and slits at the side seams, in chocolate brown, ecru, sand, white or red, $600. Each piece is woven to order and ships in 17 business days, with free express shipping worldwide. Sizes go by height. Returns are accepted within 14 days, less a $30 restocking fee.

Mina Binebine studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles and was art director for a lingerie house. During the 2020 lockdown she went home to Morocco and made her first collection, Patchwork, which showed at New York Fashion Week in February 2022; Eclosion followed in Paris that September. Her label makes everything by hand in Marrakech, where she keeps a boutique on Rue Majorelle. The Anbar blouse is wide pink stripes on crinkled cotton poplin, with a boat neck and puffed sleeves gathered at the wrist, about $130. The palazzo trousers are high-waisted sky-blue linen, also about $130. Sizes are S, M and L.

• BLOUSE ANBAR, Mina Binebine, EUR 120 (about $130)
• PANTALON PALAZZO, Mina Binebine, EUR 120 (about $130)

QOFFAH is the North African word for a basket. Its founder, Meriem, built the label around a childhood memory of carrying a basket of coloured fabric, and draws on African craft and European leatherwork. The Bahja is a raffia basket hand-woven in Morocco, with a raffia handle, gold hardware and a fabric pouch inside, 40 by 20 by 12 centimetres, $350, also in green. QOFFAH ships free within the US.

• The Bahja Yellow, QOFFAH, USD 350
• The Bahja Green, QOFFAH, USD 350

Bougroug is Anwar Bougroug's Scandinavian-Moroccan label, in his words an ode to Morocco. Artisans make its unisex shirts in cotton dobby and hand-printed poplin, its trousers in hand-dyed cotton crepe, and its bags and homeware. Forbes Africa listed him among its 30 Under 30 in 2020. International shipping is free.

— The editors