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Board art present
Primary plate resolves.
Seven views
7/7 view slots resolve · 1 real photograph(s), rest derived from the plate sheet.
Bogolan signature
Placements: waistband tape, pocket edge, side seam stripe.
Colourways
12 colourway(s) registered.
Owner marked art final
Awaiting owner sign-off — reference only.
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House · Z-Vibe Baby Linen Heritage™
Charcoal black linen shirt and short set with tonal embroidery and an ivory Bogolan mudcloth placket strip. Care: gentle cool wash, line dry, cool iron. Nickel-free snaps, flat covered seams.
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Seven views
Z-Motion™ film slot
No film cut for Onyx Baby yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Charcoal black linen shirt and short set with tonal embroidery and an ivory Bogolan mudcloth placket strip. Care: gentle cool wash, line dry, cool iron. Nickel-free snaps, flat covered seams.
Made up in Soft-washed charcoal linen, tonal embroidery, ivory Bogolan mudcloth placket.
Registered in 3 colourways: Onyx Black, Charcoal, Midnight Navy.
Sized 3-6M–18-24M across the run.
Filed under Baby Boys · Z-Vibe Linen Heritage™ as Boys suits, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Baby Linen Heritage™ line.
Black, made soft.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-BABY-BOYS-LINEN-HERITAGE-ONYX-BABY
Mudcloth in burgundy & black — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Woven tape belt cut from the same run as the garment trim.
Story behind the design
Ntomi mudcloth in burgundy & black, worked into the waistband tape, pocket edge, side seam stripe.
burgundy & black
ZB-NTOM-BUR-428
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a wolo bark tannin with iron-rich mud drawn from the Niger banks — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away. On this piece the mudcloth meets soft-washed charcoal linen.
The tape carries fanned chevrons opening from a spine. In the Bamana reading, Ntomi is the shade tree — gathering, welcome, shelter for others. Z-Vibe keeps the motif at heritage scale rather than shrinking it into a logo pattern, so the hand of the maker stays legible on the finished piece.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: waistband tape, pocket edge, side seam stripe. These are the lines the eye already follows on this silhouette, so the cloth reads as structure — an edge, a facing, a seam — and holds its meaning at three metres and at arm's length alike.
Each length is block-matched panel to panel — the atelier discards any length where the repeat cannot be aligned. Tape width and motif repeat are cut to the size band, so a petite run and an extended run carry the same proportion rather than the same measurement.
African heritage, global luxury, future design: the mudcloth is set against European finishing and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark. Nothing is erased on either side — the meeting is the design. Different Roots. One Human Story.
Care · Air the piece after wear and store folded with the tape inside. Steam from the reverse — a hot iron directly on the mudcloth flattens the weave.
Each step below reflects work that actually exists for this piece. Refinement is a design process — it does not imply the piece is production-released.
Owner-approved design board intakeComplete
The signed design board was registered as the source of truth; silhouette, Bogolan placement and hardware were locked from it.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Baby Cut (ZG-8611) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, concentric compass rings radiating from a gold-hubbed pivot, sculpted almond last with a lifted toe spring, stack 40 mm heel / 26 mm forefoot, 14 mm drop, laced in twin-tone Bogolan flat tape, obsidian on ivory, aged-gold aglets, diamond Z at the lateral wall, Z-VIBE at the medial wall. Tread, last and stack height were made unique to the shoe rather than shared across the register.
Bogolan signature verificationComplete
Mudcloth was confirmed as a construction detail (laces, panel, tongue or heel band) and not surface print, and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark was placed.
Z-Studio 4K refinement passComplete
Studio refinement rebuilt the shoe at 4K: cleaner last geometry, corrected proportions and true material rendering on the released angles.
Seven-view studio captureIn progress
1 of 7 angles are distinct photographs; 02 Left, 03 Right, 04 Back, 05 Interior, 06 Inner tags, 07 Fabric detail still read the design board.
Cut in Soft-washed charcoal linen with tonal embroidery, ivory Bogolan mudcloth placket. High-waisted, contoured seat, fluid wide leg with a clean break.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 waistband tape, pocket edge, side seam stripe \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z waist badge at the Discreet Z at the cuff, waist or closure — never a chest logo, finished under Global Heritage Fusion\u2122: African heritage in dialogue with global tailoring and future design.
Empowered by design.
In development
Reference study · not yet for sale
This piece is documented from an atelier design board. It is shown for reference only while the house completes its photography, sizing and release. Purchase, pricing and availability appear here once the owner approves the finished piece.
Readiness · 1 of 8 complete
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