House · Z-Vibe Bogolan Lounge™
Oversized charcoal boat-neck tunic with a stepped asymmetric hem and a full-length sand Bogolan column of florals, dashes and dot registers, worn with taupe joggers rail-printed in matched Bogolan from hip to cuff. Campaign design plate. Wash cool inside out, tumble low and press on the reverse so the Bogolan motifs keep their depth. Registered from the approved campaign plate. Side, back and detail views are not shot 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 Charcoal Asymmetric Mudcloth Tunic & Taupe Joggers yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Oversized charcoal boat-neck tunic with a stepped asymmetric hem and a full-length sand Bogolan column of florals, dashes and dot registers, worn with taupe joggers rail-printed in matched Bogolan from hip to cuff. Campaign design plate. Wash cool inside out, tumble low and press on the reverse so the Bogolan motifs keep their depth. Registered from the approved campaign plate. Side, back and detail views are not shot for this look, so the board opens as a single full-length plate rather than a 360 set.
Made up in Charcoal cotton, sand Bogolan column; taupe cotton jogger with Bogolan side rails.
Registered in a single colourway, Charcoal / Taupe.
Sized XS–3XL across the run.
Filed under Women · Z-Vibe Bogolan Lounge Sets™ III as Women suits, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Bogolan Lounge™ line.
Different Roots. One Human Story. One World. One Vibe.
Mudcloth in rust & black — 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 rust & black, worked into the hood & chest band, left cuff, leg seam stripe.
rust & black
ZB-NTOM-RUS-180
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 charcoal cotton.
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: hood & chest band, left cuff, leg seam stripe. 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 block-matched panel to panel — the atelier discards any length where the repeat cannot be aligned. 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 · Cold hand-wash or specialist clean only. Mud dye deepens with age; never bleach, and dry flat away from direct sun.
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™ Joggers Cut (ZG-6535) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, concentric compass rings radiating from a gold-hubbed pivot, sculpted almond last with a lifted toe spring, stack 30 mm heel / 20 mm forefoot, 10 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 Charcoal cotton with sand Bogolan column; taupe cotton jogger with Bogolan side rails. Coordinated top and bottom cut as one designed system, curve-friendly through the waist.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 hood & chest band, left cuff, leg seam stripe \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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