Marrakesh is a city of colours. It is also unique in the Arab world for the design of the tunics and headscarves worn by Muslim women who, sometimes, hide their faces behind a nigab, a face mask.
Photographer and designer Hassan Hajjaj uses traditional fabrics and cheap popular objects sold in the soukh to create highly personal designs which he asks his friends and visitors to wear. He photographs them in the courtyard of his riad which he turns into a daylight studio.

Walking the soukh and the alleys of Marrakesh, one has the feeling that the whole city was designed by Hassan Hajjaj. Or is it...