House · Z-Vibe Footwear
Z-Sapphire Spine™ High-Top — a sapphire-blue woven high-top on a white podded midsole, with a Bogolan zipper-spine running the full front closure, diamond Z badge and pod outsole — full seven-view study including interior and outsole. The board shows every approved angle with the house colourway range.
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Visual experience—color and fit may vary.
Seven views
Z-Motion™ film slot
No film cut for Z-Sapphire Spine™ High-Top yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Z-Grip™ High-Top Cutunit ZG-6279
Cut for this style alone — no other shoe in the house carries this sole.
Reference specification for design review — not a manufacturing document.
Z-Sapphire Spine™ High-Top — a sapphire-blue woven high-top on a white podded midsole, with a Bogolan zipper-spine running the full front closure, diamond Z badge and pod outsole — full seven-view study including interior and outsole. The board shows every approved angle with the house colourway range.
Made up in Full-grain and suede leather uppers with technical knit, woven Bogolan mudcloth collar tiles, heel counters, quarter facings and heritage laces, aged-gold side zips with Z-pull hardware and diamond Z badges, sculpted cushioned platforms and traction outsoles.
Registered in 5 colourways: Sapphire / Gold, Ivory / Indigo, Black / Copper, Jade / Cream, Rose / Charcoal.
Sized EU 39–EU 46 across the run.
Filed under Z-Vibe Footwear · Signature Sneaker Atelier™ as Women suits, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Footwear line.
Five Expressions. One Spine.
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5 colourways
SKU ZV-Z-SIGNATURE-SNEAKER-ATELIER-Z-SAPPHIRE-SPINE-HIGH-TOP
Mudcloth in sapphire & chalk — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Flat woven mudcloth laces with gold Z aglets.
Story behind the design
Kere mudcloth in sapphire & chalk, worked into the signature band.
sapphire & chalk
ZB-KERE-SAP-029
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 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 full-grain and suede leather uppers with technical knit.
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 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 · 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™ High-Top Cut (ZG-7819) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, concentric compass rings radiating from a gold-hubbed pivot, narrow blade last drawn long through the waist, stack 22 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 4 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 Full-grain and suede leather uppers with technical knit with woven Bogolan mudcloth collar tiles, heel counters, quarter facings and heritage laces, aged-gold side zips with Z-pull hardware and diamond Z badges, sculpted cushioned platforms and traction outsoles. Stay-put ergonomic panels, high-rise support, breathable zones, functional pockets.
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.
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.
Readiness · 1 of 8 complete
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