House · Z-VIBE LINEN TEE REGISTER™
Warm taupe linen tee opened by a narrow embroidered centre placket, with Bogolan mudcloth cuff bands. Relaxed tailored body. Care: cool wash inside out, line dry, cool iron.
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Commission the film →Warm taupe linen tee opened by a narrow embroidered centre placket, with Bogolan mudcloth cuff bands. Relaxed tailored body. Care: cool wash inside out, line dry, cool iron.
Made up in Warm taupe premium linen, embroidered centre placket, Bogolan mudcloth cuff bands.
Registered in 5 colourways: Warm Taupe, Desert Sand, Ivory Light, Cocoa Brown, Olive.
Sized XS–3XL across the run.
Filed under Men · Z-Vibe Linen Tee Register™ as Men t-shirts, carried on the House · Z-VIBE LINEN TEE REGISTER™ line.
The placket does the work.
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11 colourways
SKU ZV-MEN-LINEN-TEE-REGISTER-SAHARA-TAUPE-TEE
Mudcloth in white & brown — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Folded square echoing the placket tape.
Story behind the design
Fila-ni mudcloth in white & brown, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
white & brown
ZB-FILA-WHI-728
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 warm taupe premium linen.
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: 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 bias-cut for the curved runs, hand-basted before the topstitch so the motif never breaks at a seam. 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™ Tee Cut (ZG-5950) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, honeycomb vacuum cells with siped micro-edges, high-walled bootie last with a wrapped ankle cradle, stack 30 mm heel / 20 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 captureComplete
All 7 angles were shot as distinct photographs.
| Size | Chest | Waist | Body length |
|---|---|---|---|
| XS | 88–93 cm / 34.5–36.5 in | 73–78 cm / 28.5–30.5 in | 67 cm / 26.4 in |
| S | 94–99 cm / 37–39 in | 79–84 cm / 31–33 in | 69 cm / 27.2 in |
| M | 100–106 cm / 39.5–41.5 in | 85–91 cm / 33.5–36 in | 71 cm / 28 in |
| L | 107–114 cm / 42–45 in | 92–99 cm / 36–39 in | 73 cm / 28.7 in |
| XL | 115–122 cm / 45–48 in | 100–108 cm / 39.5–42.5 in | 75 cm / 29.5 in |
| 2XL | 123–131 cm / 48.5–51.5 in | 109–117 cm / 43–46 in | 77 cm / 30.3 in |
| 3XL | 132–140 cm / 52–55 in | 118–126 cm / 46.5–49.5 in | 79 cm / 31.1 in |
Measure a garment you already wear flat and compare — house pieces are listed as body measurements, not garment measurements.
On this piece: cool wash inside out, line dry, cool iron.
Cut in Warm taupe premium linen with embroidered centre placket, Bogolan mudcloth cuff bands. 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.
Ascend, quietly.
In 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 · 2 of 8 complete
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