House · Z-Vibe Footwear
Z-Lilac Horizon™ High-Top — board 18 — a lilac suede and technical-knit high-top on the Horizon platform sole, with Bogolanfini laces, a functional rear zipper and engineered traction, shown across seven views. The board shows every approved angle with the house colourway range.
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Z-Motion™ film slot
No film cut for Z-Lilac Horizon™ High-Top yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Z-Grip™ High-Top Cutunit ZG-3197
Cut for this style alone — no other shoe in the house carries this sole.
Reference specification for design review — not a manufacturing document.
Z-Lilac Horizon™ High-Top — board 18 — a lilac suede and technical-knit high-top on the Horizon platform sole, with Bogolanfini laces, a functional rear zipper and engineered traction, shown across seven views. The board shows every approved angle with the house colourway range.
Made up in Premium leather and soft suede uppers with technical knit panels, woven Bogolanfini collar tiles, heel counters and heritage laces, waterproof functional zippers with Z-pull hardware and diamond Z badges, sculpted platform midsoles and engineered traction outsoles.
Registered in 5 colourways: Z-Lilac Horizon, Z-Ivory Ray, Z-Blush Dawn, Z-Sage Trail, Z-Onyx Night.
Sized EU 39–EU 46 across the run.
Filed under Z-Vibe Footwear · Horizon Sneaker Atelier™ as Women suits, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Footwear line.
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5 colourways
SKU ZV-Z-HORIZON-SNEAKER-ATELIER-Z-LILAC-HORIZON-HIGH-TOP
Mudcloth in terracotta & black — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Tape wrapping the heel counter seam.
Story behind the design
Fila-ni mudcloth in terracotta & black, worked into the signature band.
terracotta & black
ZB-FILA-TER-764
Bogolanfini begins as cotton mudcloth backed with a fine leather skiver so it can take a lace and a lasting pull. 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 leather and soft suede uppers with technical knit panels.
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 shoe.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: signature band. 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 · Air the piece after wear and store folded with the tape inside. Steam from the reverse — a hot iron directly on the mudcloth flattens the weave.
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™ High-Top Cut (ZG-6402) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, chevron storm channels cut edge to edge for water clearance, narrow blade last drawn long through the waist, stack 30 mm heel / 20 mm forefoot, 10 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 Premium leather and soft suede uppers with technical knit panels with woven Bogolanfini collar tiles, heel counters and heritage laces, waterproof functional zippers with Z-pull hardware and diamond Z badges, sculpted platform midsoles and engineered traction outsoles. Curve-friendly darted tailoring, modest coverage, clean shoulder line.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 signature band \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z zipper pull at the Z zip pull at the heel counter and a micro-Z at the tongue, finished under Global Heritage Fusion\u2122: African heritage in dialogue with global tailoring and future design.
Courage, cut clean.
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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