Take a look at the pics here.
Now, I spent some time in and around Marrakesh at the end of last year, and I certainly didn't see anyone looking like that.
And if there were anyone looking like that in Marrakesh, I don't believe they would've made it from one side of the Djemaa el Fna - the city's main square, alternately meaning 'assembly of the dead' or 'the mosque of nothing' - to the next.
The description of the trend reads, "Colours are muted, pinks and browns are washed into rich blues of the ocean."
Marrakesh, being a landlocked Moroccan city.
The djellaba robe would describe Marrakesh much more accurately. It is full- or half-length, similar to that worn by Obi Wan Kenobi, with a large pointed hood.
My girlfriend Shannon and I spent six weeks in Morocco, and for much of that I thought I was on the set of a Star Wars film.
The djellaba is as quintessentially Moroccan as mint tea and tagines, and so cool I had to have one, so I bought a half length cream affair, which I was sure I would wear into town on a Friday night back at home.
I haven't.
So maybe this proves I'm a slave to fashion. But a trend, based on Marrakesh, with clothes like that... come on.
And as a sign of fashion's fickleness, the trend runs from March to April.
A new trend then, perhaps, for April Fool's - Timbuktu, anyone?
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