“Yves Saint Laurent: The Hamish Bowles Collection” runs through next January 4 at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech.

Yves Saint Laurent himself said it best ... the safari jacket, the see-through dress) that offered a modern vocabulary of dressing that was confident, worldly, and sexually liberated.

What if Yves Saint Laurent met Robert Mapplethorpe, Anthony Vaccarello asked himself, yielding a collection melding conservative chic and subversive elements.

Renowned fashion journalist Hamish Bowles has unveiled his personal collection at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech.