Ivory Bogolan Placket Shirt · 4/6 checks · Reference only — buy controls inert
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: crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
Colourways
1 colourway(s) registered.
Owner marked art final
Awaiting owner sign-off — reference only.
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House · Z-Vibe Heritage Atelier™
Ivory mandarin-collar shirt with a navy and bronze Bogolan placket strip running collar to hem, matched collar wrap and cuffs. 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. Where side, back and detail views are not separately shot, 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 Ivory Bogolan Placket Shirt yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Ivory mandarin-collar shirt with a navy and bronze Bogolan placket strip running collar to hem, matched collar wrap and cuffs. 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. Where side, back and detail views are not separately shot, the board opens as a single full-length plate rather than a 360 set.
Made up in Ivory cotton shirting, navy Bogolan placket strip, collar wrap and cuffs, tonal Z at the chest.
Registered in a single colourway, Ivory / Navy Bronze.
Sized XS–3XL across the run.
Filed under Men · Z-Vibe Heritage Atelier Shirts™ as Men shirts, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Heritage Atelier™ line.
African Heritage. Global Luxury. Future Design.
Mudcloth in brown & cream — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Folded square echoing the placket tape.
Story behind the design
Ntomi mudcloth in brown & cream, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
brown & cream
ZB-NTOM-BRO-482
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a double n'gallama bath with a lime-brightened reserve for the pale ground — 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 ivory 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 cut on the straight grain, mitred at the corners and felled by hand so no raw edge is left inside. 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™ Shirt Cut (ZG-5111) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, banded terrace steps rising from forefoot to heel, low-slung court last with a flattened tread plane, 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 Ivory cotton shirting with navy Bogolan placket strip, collar wrap and cuffs, tonal Z at the chest. Stay-put ergonomic panels, high-rise support, breathable zones, functional pockets.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 crop neck band, left cuff, front placket \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z zipper pull 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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