House · Z-Vibe Carriage™
Forest briefcase with a Bogolan front pocket strip. Concept register. Wipe leather and coated shells with a soft cloth, wash knits cool, and keep the hand-printed Bogolan trim away from bleach so the clay tones stay true.
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Seven views
Z-Motion™ film slot
No film cut for Z-Vallis Brief yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Forest briefcase with a Bogolan front pocket strip. Concept register. Wipe leather and coated shells with a soft cloth, wash knits cool, and keep the hand-printed Bogolan trim away from bleach so the clay tones stay true.
Made up in Full-grain and coated leather, hardshell composite, Bogolan mudcloth panel, gold Z-Closure™ zip.
Registered in 4 colourways: Onyx Black, Cocoa Brown, Deep Forest, Sand.
Sized One size–One size across the run.
Filed under Z-Vibe Carriage™ · Bogolan Zipper Series as Men intimates, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Carriage™ line.
Modern travel, made memorable.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-Z-VIBE-CARRIAGE-Z-VALLIS-BRIEF
Mudcloth in sand & charcoal — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Folded square echoing the placket tape.
Story behind the design
Ntomi mudcloth in sand & charcoal, worked into the collar facing, lapel edge, left cuff turn-back.
sand & charcoal
ZB-NTOM-SAN-698
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a n'tjankara leaf mordant followed by a slow black-mud pass — 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 coated leather.
The tape carries fanned chevrons opening from a spine. In the Bamana reading, Ntomi is the shade tree — gathering, welcome, shelter for others. 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: collar facing, lapel edge, left cuff turn-back. 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™ Brief Cut (ZG-6703) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, concentric compass rings radiating from a gold-hubbed pivot, sculpted almond last with a lifted toe spring, 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 Full-grain and coated leather with hardshell composite, Bogolan mudcloth panel, gold Z-Closure™ zip. Sculpted shoulder, defined waist, generous layering room.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 collar facing, lapel edge, left cuff turn-back \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z zipper pull 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.
Radiance, finished by hand.
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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