House · Atelier Nouveau
Knife-pleated mini skirt with an architectural criss-cross strap cut-out at the hip, built-in shorts and a Bogolan mudcloth waistband facing.
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Commission the film →Knife-pleated mini skirt with an architectural criss-cross strap cut-out at the hip, built-in shorts and a Bogolan mudcloth waistband facing.
Made up in Premium suiting blend with stretch inner short, finished with a hairline Bogolan mudcloth trim.
Registered in 7 colourways: Obsidian Black, Charcoal Steel, Midnight Navy, Burgundy Wine, Emerald Deep, Ivory Light, Sand Beige.
Sized XXS–2XL across the run.
Filed under House · Z-Luxe Atelier Nouveau as Women dresses, carried on the House · Atelier Nouveau line.
Legacy you can wear.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-HOUSE-ZLUXE-ATELIER-NOUVEAU-LATTICE-PLEAT-MINI-SKIRT
Mudcloth in cream & indigo — 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
Sirablen mudcloth in cream & indigo, worked into the waistband tape, hem tape.
cream & indigo
ZB-SIRA-CRE-067
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a n'tjankara leaf mordant followed by a slow black-mud pass — 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 premium suiting blend with stretch inner short.
The tape carries a broken line stepping across the ground cloth. In the Bamana reading, Sirablen is the road home — steadiness on a long journey. 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, hem tape. 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 · Spot-clean the mudcloth with cool water and a soft cloth. Dry-clean the body of the piece; the tape is colour-set but not bleach-safe.
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™ Skirt Cut (ZG-1160) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, split-diamond Z lugs stepped in three depths, low-slung court last with a flattened tread plane, stack 34 mm heel / 22 mm forefoot, 12 mm drop, laced in flat woven Bogolan mudcloth tape, 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 Premium suiting blend with stretch inner short with finished with a hairline Bogolan mudcloth trim. Contoured waistband, smooth hip, easy walking room.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 waistband tape, hem tape \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.
Legacy you can wear.
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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