House · Z-Vibe Footwear · Circuit Atelier
Z-Pearl Accordion™ High-Top — a pearl-white leather high-top on a sculpted accordion platform with Bogolan collar and lacing, gold eyelets and a diamond Z badge — seven views with the four signature colourways. The board shows every approved angle with the house colourway range.
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Seven views
Z-Motion™ film slot
No film cut for Z-Pearl Accordion™ High-Top yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Z-Grip™ High-Top Cutunit ZG-2650
Cut for this style alone — no other shoe in the house carries this sole.
Reference specification for design review — not a manufacturing document.
Z-Pearl Accordion™ High-Top — a pearl-white leather high-top on a sculpted accordion platform with Bogolan collar and lacing, gold eyelets and a diamond Z badge — seven views with the four signature colourways. 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 4 colourways: Pearl (Signature), Rose Quartz, Midnight, Sage.
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.
More Than a Sneaker. A Higher You.
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4 colourways
SKU ZV-Z-WOMEN-CIRCUIT-ATELIER-Z-PEARL-ACCORDION-HIGH-TOP
Mudcloth in white & brown — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Tape wrapping the heel counter seam.
Story behind the design
Kere mudcloth in white & brown, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
white & brown
ZB-KERE-WHI-206
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 leather.
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: 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 cut on the straight grain, mitred at the corners and felled by hand so no raw edge is left inside. 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-9854) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, woven-cord relief echoing a Bogolan warp, tapered aerodynamic last with a raked heel breast, stack 22 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 4 mm drop, laced in twin-tone Bogolan flat tape, obsidian on ivory, 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.
Rise into the room.
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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