🇨🇫 Central African Republic
Pagne
Printed and wrapped cloth carrying family, celebration and political memory across Central Africa.
- Origin
- Bangui and the Oubangui basin
- Modern uses
- Tailored coats, evening column dresses, lining.
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Damask beaten to a mirror sheen, cut into modern tailoring and finished with hand embroidery at plackets, cuffs and necklines.
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Fermented mud on hand-spun cotton — the house's oldest ink.
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Wax print colour theory taken to evening wear.
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Pagne de C.A.R Collection
Pagne as portrait: the cloth that carries a family name.
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Three days on the Niger with the Bogolan mudcloth painters who ink our outerwear.
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A loom in Varanasi
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Global Heritage Fusion™
Designed by the World. Inspired by Heritage.
Z-VIBE begins proudly with African heritage and places it in creative dialogue with European tailoring, American innovation, Asian precision and craft, and influences from across the world. Heritage is not frozen in the past. It becomes a foundation for what comes next.
African Heritage. Global Luxury. Future Design.
Bogolan, placed with intention
Bogolan mudcloth is a construction language, not decoration: collars, cuffs, plackets, facings, seams, pocket bags and linings.
Linen and embroidery
Washed and hand-finished linens carry tonal embroidery drawn from heritage geometry, worked at the atelier scale.
Global tailoring and innovation
European cutting discipline, Asian precision finishing and American technical innovation shape every silhouette.