Anna Tchashin is a 24-year-old Berlin-based designer, medical student and founder of Spiky Cherry. Before entering fashion, she spent her youth and childhood as a competitive ice dancer. Growing up within the highly disciplined environment of elite sport fundamentally shaped her understanding of the body and pain — not only as something beautiful and expressive, but as something that can be trained, controlled, judged, sexualised, injured and pushed beyond its limits.
Through Spiky Cherry, Tchashin reimagines crochet as a medium for sculptural luxury fashion. Drawing from the language of shapewear, her garments wrap, compress, expose and distort the silhouette, creating a tension between protection and vulnerability.
Deconstructed crochet, exposed construction, raw edges and fragmented surfaces collide with the rebellious codes of punk and goth culture. Material experimentation and intensive handcraft are fundamental to this language. Tchashin combines the yarns herself creating irregular, weathered surfaces, sensual yet confrontational, delicate yet aggressive, polished yet deliberately undone.
Softness meets violence; femininity meets aggression; beauty meets pain.
MANUFACTURED GRACE
SS27
For Spring/Summer 2027, Tchashin returns to competitive ice dance and confronts the violence that can exist beneath the immaculate surface of elite performance. Grace is presented as effortless, yet it is manufactured through pain.
Drawing from experiences of physical injury, repetition until exhaustion, bodies constantly evaluated, childhoods structured around training and an overwhelming pressure to remain beautiful while enduring discomfort silently, Tchashin presents the idea of the manufactured body confronting the sexualisation of young athletes and the imbalance of power between the bodies being watched and those permitted to judge them.
Trained to move correctly into a desired silhouette. Beauty becomes labour. Perfection becomes performance. Softness becomes armour. Not Rejecting, but loving something despite being capable of causing profound pain, Tchashin preserves the fantasy, elegance and
theatricality that first made the world of performance seductive while exposing what can remain invisible underneath it.
Bringing together the discipline of competitive sport, the precision of medicine, the intimacy of handcraft and the defiance of subculture, Spiky Cherry transforms pain into material and personal history into form.
