House · Frontier Futur
Knife-pleated mini with a woven lattice strap cutout at one hip, mudcloth-bound waistband and gold Z tab.
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Commission the film →Knife-pleated mini with a woven lattice strap cutout at one hip, mudcloth-bound waistband and gold Z tab.
Made up in Pleated tech crepe with mudcloth binding, finished with a hairline Bogolan mudcloth trim.
Registered in 7 colourways: Noir, Charcoal Steel, Ivory Light, Burgundy Wine, Emerald Deep, Midnight Navy, Cocoa.
Sized XS–3XL across the run.
Filed under House · Z-Luxe Frontier Futur as Women dresses, carried on the House · Frontier Futur line.
Momentum, tailored.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-HOUSE-ZLUXE-FRONTIER-FUTUR-FRONTIER-LATTICE-PLEAT-SKIRT
Mudcloth in white & brown — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Hand-rolled edges, motif matched to the collar facing.
Story behind the design
Ntomi mudcloth in white & brown, worked into the waistband tape, hem tape.
white & brown
ZB-NTOM-WHI-326
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a n'gallama leaf bath, then river-mud fermentation over three passes — 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 pleated tech crepe with mudcloth binding.
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, 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 · 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™ Skirt Cut (ZG-5990) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, woven-cord relief echoing a Bogolan warp, narrow blade last drawn long through the waist, 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 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 Pleated tech crepe with mudcloth binding 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.
Momentum, tailored.
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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