House · Z-VIBE SHIRT COUTURE™
Fitted black shirt with a structured stand collar, a Bogolan mudcloth chest pocket, mudcloth cuffs and one restrained mudcloth trim line at the placket edge. Fit: clean shoulder, shaped waist, straight hem. Care: cool wash, line dry, cool iron.
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Commission the film →Fitted black shirt with a structured stand collar, a Bogolan mudcloth chest pocket, mudcloth cuffs and one restrained mudcloth trim line at the placket edge. Fit: clean shoulder, shaped waist, straight hem. Care: cool wash, line dry, cool iron.
Made up in Black washed linen-cotton, Bogolan mudcloth chest pocket, cuffs and placket trim, tonal black embroidery around the pocket, discreet gold-tone Z on the inner label.
Registered in 6 colourways: Onyx Black, Midnight Navy, Olive Charcoal, Desert Sand, Chalk Ivory, Burgundy Wine.
Sized XS–3X across the run.
Filed under Women · Z-Vibe Shirt Couture™ as Women shirts, carried on the House · Z-VIBE SHIRT COUTURE™ line.
Restraint, with one heritage pocket.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-WOMEN-SHIRT-COUTURE-Z-VIBE-NOVA-SHIRT
Mudcloth in camel & espresso — 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
Bamana star mudcloth in camel & espresso, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
camel & espresso
ZB-BAMA-CAM-402
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 black washed linen-cotton.
The tape carries eight-point stars set in a measured grid. In the Bamana reading, Bamana star is orientation after dark — guidance and clear intent. 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 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™ Shirt Cut (ZG-4149) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, longitudinal rail flutes with a scalloped braking heel, asymmetric anatomical last shaped to the natural toe splay, stack 34 mm heel / 22 mm forefoot, 12 mm drop, laced in round braided Bogolan cord over a waxed core, 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 Black washed linen-cotton with Bogolan mudcloth chest pocket, cuffs and placket trim, tonal black embroidery around the pocket, discreet gold-tone Z on the inner label. 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.
Empowered by design.
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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