Z-Cobalt Tempo™ High-Top · 4/6 checks · Reference only — buy controls inert
Board art present
Primary plate resolves.
Seven views
7/7 view slots resolve · 1 real photograph(s), rest derived from the plate sheet.
Bogolan signature
Placements: crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
Colourways
5 colourway(s) registered.
Owner marked art final
Awaiting owner sign-off — reference only.
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House · Z-Vibe Footwear · Circuit Atelier
Z-Cobalt Tempo™ High-Top — a royal-cobalt high-top with a gold zipper-ribbon, ankle clip and Bogolan lacing web on a segmented cushioned sole — seven views with the zipper-ribbon and lacing-web macros. 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-Cobalt Tempo™ High-Top yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Z-Grip™ High-Top Cutunit ZG-4748
Cut for this style alone — no other shoe in the house carries this sole.
Reference specification for design review — not a manufacturing document.
Z-Cobalt Tempo™ High-Top — a royal-cobalt high-top with a gold zipper-ribbon, ankle clip and Bogolan lacing web on a segmented cushioned sole — seven views with the zipper-ribbon and lacing-web macros. The board shows every approved angle with the house colourway range.
Made up in Full-grain leather, suede and technical knit uppers with woven Bogolan collar ribbons, lace-anchor systems, zipper garages and lacing webs, aged-gold asymmetrical zips with Z-pull hardware and diamond Z badges, sculpted cushioned platforms and engineered traction outsoles.
Registered in 5 colourways: Royal Cobalt / Gold, Ivory / Indigo, Black / Copper, Emerald / Cream, Rose / Charcoal.
Sized EU 39–EU 46 across the run.
Filed under Z-Vibe Footwear · Women's Circuit Atelier™ as Women suits, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Footwear · Circuit Atelier line.
Five Expressions. One Movement.
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5 colourways
SKU ZV-Z-WOMEN-CIRCUIT-ATELIER-Z-COBALT-TEMPO-HIGH-TOP
Mudcloth in white & brown — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Flat woven mudcloth laces with gold Z aglets.
Story behind the design
Ntomi mudcloth in white & brown, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
white & brown
ZB-NTOM-WHI-637
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 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 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 shoe.
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 · Cold hand-wash or specialist clean only. Mud dye deepens with age; never bleach, and dry flat away from direct sun.
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-9324) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, interlocking arrowhead cleats angled outward for lateral bite, high-walled bootie last with a wrapped ankle cradle, stack 28 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 10 mm drop, laced in flat woven Bogolan mudcloth tape, 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 leather with suede and technical knit uppers with woven Bogolan collar ribbons, lace-anchor systems, zipper garages and lacing webs, aged-gold asymmetrical zips with Z-pull hardware and diamond Z badges, sculpted cushioned platforms and engineered traction outsoles. 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 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.
Ascend, quietly.
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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