Z-Kids · Boys Parade
Split-front jacket, one half plain, one half mudcloth.
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Commission the film →Split-front jacket, one half plain, one half mudcloth.
Made up in Wool-linen with heritage half-front, finished with a hairline Bogolan mudcloth trim.
Registered in 3 colourways: Obsidian / Ochre, Navy / Chalk, Umber / Bone.
Filed under Young Boys · Parade Line as Boys suits, carried on the Z-Kids · Boys Parade line.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-BOYS-CADET-HALF-PANEL-SUIT
Mudcloth in cream & indigo — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Mudcloth body lining visible when the coat opens.
Story behind the design
Fila-ni mudcloth in cream & indigo, worked into the hood & chest band, left cuff, leg seam stripe.
cream & indigo
ZB-FILA-CRE-202
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 wool-linen with heritage half-front.
The tape carries paired diagonals folding into one another. In the Bamana reading, Fila-ni is two paths that meet — the House reading of Different Roots, One Human Story. 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: hood & chest band, left cuff, leg 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 hand-turned and pick-stitched in silk thread, then pressed over a ham so the tape sits flat, not glued. 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 · Cold hand-wash or specialist clean only. Mud dye deepens with age; never bleach, and dry flat away from direct sun.
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™ Suit Cut (ZG-3649) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, fractured basalt facets with a polished torsion spine, high-walled bootie last with a wrapped ankle cradle, stack 18 mm heel / 16 mm forefoot, 2 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 passNot yet run
No refinement output released yet — this page reads the approved board unretouched.
Seven-view studio captureNot yet run
No angle has been shot yet; all 7 views read the design board.
Cut in Wool-linen with heritage half-front with finished with a hairline Bogolan mudcloth trim. Coordinated top and bottom cut as one designed system, curve-friendly through the waist.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 hood & chest band, left cuff, leg 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.
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Bogolan SignatureIn 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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