Tichka — The creation
The Tichka Pass rises to 2,260 meters in the Moroccan High Atlas.
The road climbs in tight hairpin bends, between ochre and sky, in a light that exists nowhere else.
That's where Tichka comes from—from this altitude, this color, this feeling of being above the world.
The piece is built in three registers, each telling a part of the journey.
- The upper yoke, in square golden and golden beige mesh stitch, evokes moucharabiehs, those carved wooden lattices that filter light in riads.
- The thin straps tie at the shoulders—a simple, almost ritualistic gesture that adjusts the piece to the wearer's body.
- Then the body opens in a deep red square net stitch, entirely openwork, entirely transparent: the red of Marrakech carpets, of souk spices, of sunsets over the ramparts. The golden scalloped border at the bottom closes the piece like a signature.
Red and gold. An alliance that needs no explanation—it asserts itself, just as the Tichka Pass asserts itself on the horizon when one leaves the plain.
The cut is straight, long, down to the hips. Tichka is worn over white or ivory pants to let the colors speak, or over black jeans to accentuate their intensity. In the evening, on bare skin, it becomes something else.
Entirely hand-crocheted in my French workshop.
Exclusive Cachalabibi creation — Unique piece, only one in the world.