Women · Z-COVENANT Vibe T-Shirt
Mocha Grace. A premium fitted women's T-shirt in mocha brown, cut close through the waist with a clean set shoulder. Authentic Bogolan mudcloth faces the centre chest placket panel and both short sleeve cuff bands; a small gold-tone Z mark sits discreetly at the chest — never oversized. Fit: fitted, true to size; size up for a relaxed line. Care: machine wash cold inside out, hang dry, warm iron on the reverse; do not bleach the mudcloth. Every colourway in the family is available on this cut.
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Commission the film →Mocha Grace. A premium fitted women's T-shirt in mocha brown, cut close through the waist with a clean set shoulder. Authentic Bogolan mudcloth faces the centre chest placket panel and both short sleeve cuff bands; a small gold-tone Z mark sits discreetly at the chest — never oversized. Fit: fitted, true to size; size up for a relaxed line. Care: machine wash cold inside out, hang dry, warm iron on the reverse; do not bleach the mudcloth. Every colourway in the family is available on this cut.
Made up in Premium combed cotton-modal jersey with a soft brushed hand, authentic Bogolan mudcloth centre chest panel and sleeve cuff bands, discreet gold-tone Z chest mark.
Registered in 10 colourways: Ivory Heritage, Onyx Elegance, Desert Sand, Olive Power, Burgundy Wine, Teal Horizon, Charcoal Edge, Pure Faith, Midnight Navy, Mocha Grace.
Sized XS–XXL across the run.
Filed under Z-COVENANT · Vibe T-Shirts as Women shirts, carried on the Women · Z-COVENANT Vibe T-Shirt line.
Mocha Grace. Worn like a covenant.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-WOMEN-Z-COVENANT-TEES-Z-COVENANT-VIBE-T-SHIRT-MOCHA-GRACE
Mudcloth in burgundy & black — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Folded square echoing the placket tape.
Story behind the design
Kanaga mudcloth in burgundy & black, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
burgundy & black
ZB-KANA-BUR-060
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 premium combed cotton-modal jersey with a soft brushed hand.
The tape carries twin arms above a bar, repeated along the tape. In the Bamana reading, Kanaga is the sign of the crossing — passage between worlds, carried by travellers. 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 hand-turned and pick-stitched in silk thread, then pressed over a ham so the tape sits flat, not glued. 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™ Grace Cut (ZG-9116) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, split-diamond Z lugs stepped in three depths, high-walled bootie last with a wrapped ankle cradle, stack 22 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 4 mm drop, laced in narrow Bogolan ribbon lace with a hand-knotted stopper. 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.
Cut in Premium combed cotton-modal jersey with a soft brushed hand with authentic Bogolan mudcloth centre chest panel and sleeve cuff bands, discreet gold-tone Z chest mark. 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.
Unstoppable, and elegant with it.
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 · 3 of 8 complete
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