House · Z-Vibe Men's Atelier™
Onyx black shirt with a tan Bogolan shoulder-to-hem panel, printed collar, coded placket band, framed chest pocket and matched cuffs, with the gold Z-VIBE placard at the chest. Campaign design plate. Wash cool inside out, tumble low and press on the reverse so the Bogolan work keeps its depth. Registered from the approved campaign plate. Side, back and detail views are not shot separately for this look, so the board opens as a single full-length plate rather than a 360 set.
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Visual experience—color and fit may vary.
Seven views
Z-Motion™ film slot
No film cut for Signature Pocket Shirt — Onyx yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Onyx black shirt with a tan Bogolan shoulder-to-hem panel, printed collar, coded placket band, framed chest pocket and matched cuffs, with the gold Z-VIBE placard at the chest. Campaign design plate. Wash cool inside out, tumble low and press on the reverse so the Bogolan work keeps its depth. Registered from the approved campaign plate. Side, back and detail views are not shot separately for this look, so the board opens as a single full-length plate rather than a 360 set.
Made up in Onyx cotton shirting, printed Bogolan panel, placket band, pocket frame and cuffs, gold Z placard.
Registered in a single colourway, Onyx / Tan.
Sized XS–3XL across the run.
Filed under Men · Z-Vibe Atelier Shirts™ V as Men shirts, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Men's Atelier™ line.
Culture. Style. Purpose.
Mudcloth in moss & ochre — 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 moss & ochre, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
moss & ochre
ZB-NTOM-MOS-661
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 onyx cotton shirting.
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: crop neck band, left cuff, front placket. 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™ Onyx Cut (ZG-3620) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, split-diamond Z lugs stepped in three depths, sculpted almond last with a lifted toe spring, stack 28 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 10 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 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 Onyx cotton shirting with printed Bogolan panel, placket band, pocket frame and cuffs, gold Z placard. Curve-friendly darted tailoring, modest coverage, clean shoulder line.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 crop neck band, left cuff, front placket \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z-signature buttons 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.
Forward, always.
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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