Women · Z-COVENANT Bogolan Studded Shirt
The founding cut. A tailored short-sleeve women's shirt in a midnight navy base with authentic Bogolan mudcloth facing the collar stand, the cuff bands and the full front placket. Refined gold-tone studs trace the placket edge at an even pitch. Discreet Z-COVENANT chest branding. Fit: tailored through the waist, clean shoulder, short sleeve finished with a mudcloth band. Care: machine wash cold inside out, hang dry, warm iron on the reverse; do not bleach the mudcloth.
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Commission the film →The founding cut. A tailored short-sleeve women's shirt in a midnight navy base with authentic Bogolan mudcloth facing the collar stand, the cuff bands and the full front placket. Refined gold-tone studs trace the placket edge at an even pitch. Discreet Z-COVENANT chest branding. Fit: tailored through the waist, clean shoulder, short sleeve finished with a mudcloth band. Care: machine wash cold inside out, hang dry, warm iron on the reverse; do not bleach the mudcloth.
Made up in Premium breathable cotton-poplin with a soft brushed hand, authentic Bogolan mudcloth collar stand, cuff bands and full front placket, hand-set gold-tone studs, gold-tone Z placket rivet.
Registered in 7 colourways: Midnight Navy, Olive Vine, Desert Sand, Burgundy Wine, Teal Horizon, Charcoal Steel, Ivory Light.
Sized XXS–5X across the run.
Filed under Z-COVENANT · Bogolan Studded Shirts as Women shirts, carried on the Women · Z-COVENANT Bogolan Studded Shirt line.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-WOMEN-Z-COVENANT-SHIRTS-Z-COVENANT-BOGOLAN-STUDDED-SHIRT-SIGNATURE
Mudcloth in plum & cream — 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
Kere mudcloth in plum & cream, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
plum & cream
ZB-KERE-PLU-308
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a wolo bark tannin with iron-rich mud drawn from the Niger banks — 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 premium breathable cotton-poplin with a soft brushed hand.
The tape carries tight lattice with hand-dotted corners. In the Bamana reading, Kere is the fence weave — protection of what has been built. 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 · Spot-clean the mudcloth with cool water and a soft cloth. Dry-clean the body of the piece; the tape is colour-set but not bleach-safe.
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™ Signature Cut (ZG-9448) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, raked sawtooth blades set on a 12° forward rake, narrow blade last drawn long through the waist, stack 22 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 4 mm drop, laced in heavy Bogolan rope lace, brass-crimped tips, 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 Premium breathable cotton-poplin with a soft brushed hand with authentic Bogolan mudcloth collar stand, cuff bands and full front placket, hand-set gold-tone studs, gold-tone Z placket rivet. 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.
Victory in the details.
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.
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