Travel experts at Plan-it Morocco and Wix Squared came together to create this one-of-a-kind offer on The Vault

If you’ve ever dreamed of commissioning a custom piece from the late Yves Saint Laurent, the highlight of this extraordinary experience in Marrakech offers the next best thing.

For this one-off adventure, Robb Report has tapped Travel Master Alex Wix of Wix Squared and Gail Leonard’s team at Plan-it Morocco. “If Marrakech can be the muse of someone like Yves Saint Laurent, why on Earth are you not coming to Marrakech?” Leonard says with a laugh. “It’s a sensory overload, a sugar rush of color.” Together, the Morocco-based outfits have devised an itinerary—equal parts experience and art object—designed to immerse you in the city that enchanted one of fashion’s most legendary talents.

Saint Laurent was instantly smitten with Marrakech during his first visit in 1966. He and his partner, Pierre Bergé, bought a home there almost immediately, dubbing it Dar el Hanch or the Snake’s House. The designer painted the serpent mural that gave the residence its name, and the artwork directly inspired the necklace included in this package. “Snakes feature heavily in his costume-jewellery designs, for their creative rebirth when they shed their skin,” Leonard says.

Designed by Stephen di Renza, the necklace itself will be a bespoke creation by Paris-based enamelist Sandrine Tessier, a third-generation artisan whose work appears in the vitrines of Place Vendôme. Vault buyers skip her lengthy waiting list and go straight to a custom commission, the Serpent of Marrakech, a fully articulated chain with 46 double-sided elements: a dozen each of blue, yellow, and green sapphires, 12 rubies, and 20 black diamonds. The serpent pendant adds more than 250 more black diamonds, navette-cut rubies, and champlevé enamel. Each enamel layer is hand-fired, and the entire piece is cast in 18-karat palladium white gold with black dorure beneath the stones. Tessier guarantees it to be a true one-of-one, with no prototype or reproduction ever permitted.

The trip goes far beyond the jewel. Your three-night stay is at La Mamounia, Saint Laurent’s longtime hotel of choice. You’ll sleep in the 2,280-square-foot Al Mamoun Suite—two bedrooms and multiple terraces offering wide-open views of the Atlas Mountains, the same panorama that helped seal the designer’s bond with the city.

Days unfold through a series of private visits, backed by a luxury town car for any spur-of-the-moment detours. At Dar el Hanch, the home’s current owners will welcome you for drinks and share firsthand stories of the Saint Laurent–era. (They knew Saint Laurent’s circle personally.) “These were the heady, happy days,” Leonard notes. “That very famous photograph of Saint Laurent, bare-chested in white jeans? He is standing on the balcony as you arrive into the house.” You‘ll leave with a copy of YSL: Une Passion Marocaine as a memento of the meeting.

Next comes an extraordinary access to Villa Oasis, the final home of Saint Laurent and Bergé. Closed to all but a handful of visitors each year, the residence reveals rooms layered with carved-woodwork pieces and meticulous artisanal details—an intimate look at the aesthetic that shaped Saint Laurent’s late career. You’ll also tour the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech and the adjacent Jardin Majorelle, a whimsical botanical fantasia created by artist Jacques Majorelle and painstakingly restored by the couple.

The experience isn’t rooted solely in the past. Hadia Temli, one of Morocco’s most influential creators and gallerists, will lead you through the studios and workshops of the city’s rising artists, offering a window into Marrakech’s creative present.

This immersion will underscore what drew Saint Laurent and his circle—including Talitha Getty—to the city in the first place. “It’s an amazing weekend of dipping your Manolo-shod toes into this incredible scene,” Leonard says. “In that era, it became so glamorous, with a frisson of possibility and inspiration. And people still come to be incredibly inspired—that’s still the essence of Marrakech.”

This story was first published on Robb Report USA. Featured photo by Salah Ghrissi