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Avec ses créations, Tamy Tazi a fourni ses lettres de noblesse au vêtement marocain contemporain : caftans de cérémonie ou d'intérieur, djellabas, selhams (capes), vestes et saroual... C'est que ses modèles se situent au carrefour de deux traditions marquantes, qui résistent l'une et l'autre aux pressions du siècle.
La Haute Couture d'une part, que Tamy Tazi a longtemps tutoyée en représentant celle d'Yves Saint Laurent au Maroc. Et chacun sait les liens que le créateur français entretenait avec ce pays, source d'inspiration formelle et chromatique. Le patrimoine marocain d'autre part, non plus tel qu'il se présente au lendemain de l'Indépendance du pays, avec les prémisses de l'émancipation féminine, mais exhumé dans sa richesse et sa singularité, défolklorisé, rehaussé par le travail documentaire, la collection de pièces rares ; et de là entièrement renouvelé.
For years Tamy Tazi has applied her unique insights as a fashion designer into restyling contemporary Moroccan clothing, principally by bringing her aristocratic touch to the traditional caftan, along with djellabas, selhams (capes), tunics, and saroual, whether as ceremonial wear or for use in the home. Her creative genius represents a fascinating crossover between two major traditional currents that have resisted change down through the centuries.
Tamy Tazi's works establish a graceful balance between haute couture as a representative of Yves Saint Laurent, whose stylistic range has been deeply influenced by his long bond with Morocco, and the Moroccan legacy itself. But her approach goes far beyond the new sense of women's emancipation following the country's Independence, and instead involves a complete regeneration of Morocco's characteristic styles of dress. After lengthy research and documentation, along with the collection of rare specimens of Moroccan dress from the past, Tamy Tazi has used this knowledge as a starting point, liberating the caftan from its mere folkloristic aspects, and creating an entirely new range of garments that combine tradition and modern fashion.
