House · Z-Vibe Heritage Boards™
Onyx tuxedo blazer with gold and silver botanical lapel and sleeve embroidery and Bogolan-geometry cuff turnbacks, worn with charcoal wide-leg trousers. Reference design board. Wash cool or dry clean by cloth, press on the reverse, and keep the hand-printed Bogolan trim away from bleach so the clay tones stay true.
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Seven views
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No film cut for Onyx Botanical Leaf Tuxedo Blazer yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Onyx tuxedo blazer with gold and silver botanical lapel and sleeve embroidery and Bogolan-geometry cuff turnbacks, worn with charcoal wide-leg trousers. Reference design board. Wash cool or dry clean by cloth, press on the reverse, and keep the hand-printed Bogolan trim away from bleach so the clay tones stay true.
Made up in Onyx wool crepe, gold-and-silver botanical lapel and sleeve embroidery, Bogolan-geometry cuff turnbacks, charcoal wide-leg trouser.
Registered in a single colourway, Onyx.
Sized XS–3XL across the run.
Filed under Women · Z-Vibe Heritage Boards™ as Women suits, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Heritage Boards™ line.
Style the Moment. Impact the Timeline.
Mudcloth in ivory & black — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Cut to sit inside the collar facing.
Story behind the design
Fila-ni mudcloth in ivory & black, worked into the collar facing, lapel edge, left cuff turn-back.
ivory & black
ZB-FILA-IVO-914
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 onyx wool crepe.
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: collar facing, lapel edge, left cuff turn-back. 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™ Blazer Cut (ZG-4771) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, concentric compass rings radiating from a gold-hubbed pivot, rounded volume last with a deep instep for thick socks, stack 28 mm heel / 18 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 Onyx wool crepe with gold-and-silver botanical lapel and sleeve embroidery, Bogolan-geometry cuff turnbacks, charcoal wide-leg trouser. Sculpted shoulder, defined waist, generous layering room.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 collar facing, lapel edge, left cuff turn-back \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z cuff link 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.
Elevate every entrance.
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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