Move over Marrakesh, this is the fashion set’s new holiday hotspot

Rue de la Kasbah links the new Tangier with the 15th-century walls of its old medina and has lately become a destination for easy luxury, with wearable pieces that are designed and made here using Moroccan materials. There’s Rock da Kasbah selling high-quality sweats, totes and tees, then, a few doors up, Las Chicas specialises in off-the-peg luxury plus the kind of carefully tailored harem pants that have become a wardrobe staple for global nomads. For something even smarter, Kenza Bennani’s label, New Tangier, has dresses, kaftans and dramatic cloaks that pop up on red carpets around the world.

Something is happening here in Tangier — a new, confident and understated style that shuns fast fashion while mining Morocco’s copious artisanal talent. Bennani, formerly of