House reference · Designers & admins
The Z-Vibe Tailoring System.
African heritage, global luxury, future design — resolved into rules a new piece inherits automatically. Every product surface on this site reads the same modules this page reads, so what is written here is what ships.
Z hardware rules.
| Mark | Where it is used |
|---|---|
| Z-signature buttons | Office tailoring, blazers, shirting — front closure only. |
| Z zipper pull | Active, technical shells, boots and any zipped entry. |
| Z cuff link | Formal shirting and ceremonial sleeves. |
| Z waist badge | Trousers, skirts and high-rise sets, worn at the left waistband. |
| Z belt hardware | Belted coats, wrap dresses and utility pieces. |
| Z clasp | Bags, jewellery and small leather goods. |
| Z embroidered mark | Knitwear and soft pieces where metal would read heavy. |
- One mark per piece. A garment that already carries a Z waist badge does not also carry Z buttons.
- Gold on dark cloth, brushed dark on ivory and sand cloth — never mixed finishes on one piece.
- Discreet scale only: the mark is read at arm's length, never across a room. No oversized chest logo, ever.
- The mark sits on a functional part — a closure, a pull, a waistband — never applied as decoration.
Bogolan palette families.
18 mudcloth families are held in tape. A piece is assigned one family from its slug and keeps it across every colourway — the heritage band is the constant, the cloth around it changes.
ivory & black
ivory-black · #efe7d8 / #191410
brown & cream
brown-cream · #7b5233 / #f0e3cd
terracotta & black
terracotta-black · #a4502f / #1b1410
white & brown
white-brown · #f6f1e6 / #5b3a24
indigo & ivory
indigo-ivory · #26364f / #efe7d8
olive & cream
olive-cream · #5d5f38 / #eee6cf
burgundy & black
burgundy-black · #5d2130 / #17100f
sand & charcoal
sand-charcoal · #cbb79a / #2a2622
sapphire & chalk
sapphire-chalk · #1f3a6b / #e9e4d6
emerald & ivory
emerald-ivory · #1f4f3d / #efe7d8
plum & cream
plum-cream · #4a2740 / #eee2d0
rust & black
rust-black · #8f3d1c / #171210
camel & espresso
camel-espresso · #b98a55 / #33220f
cream & indigo
cream-indigo · #f2ead9 / #243450
black & ivory
black-ivory · #141210 / #efe7d8
teal & sand
teal-sand · #1e4a4c / #dcc9a4
clay & bone
clay-bone · #9c6144 / #f1e7d5
moss & ochre
moss-ochre · #3f4a2c / #d59b3c
The house colour wardrobe.
Register the tones a piece was photographed in; the system expands the run to 12 swatches from the wardrobe below, skipping any hue already declared. Selecting a swatch must update the media, colour name, SKU and availability together.
- Black & Ivory
- Midnight Navy
- Royal Cobalt
- Sky Blue
- Olive Sage
- Emerald Forest
- Lime Chartreuse
- Burgundy Wine
- Heritage Red
- Cream & Sand
- Blush Rose
- Chocolate
- Royal Purple
Naming & tagline conventions.
- Register name
- HOUSE · Z-VIBE <FAMILY> for a drop; the piece itself is <Word> <Word> <Garment> — e.g. Momentum Heritage Set.
- Trademark families
- Family names carry the ™ mark on first use (Z-ARCTIC™, Z-CHAIN™, Z-NAIL™); individual pieces do not.
- Slug
- Lowercase, hyphenated, no house prefix in the visible name: zv-parade-momentum-heritage-set.
- SKU
- Derived from the slug (ZV-MOMENTUM-HERITAGE-SET) and extended by colourway and size at variant level.
- Tagline
- One uplifting line, sentence case, ending in a full stop: "Rise into the room." Never a claim, never a price.
- Subtitle
- Material and heritage read: "Spike-Nail Winter Boots — Bogolan Edition". Em dash, no marketing adjectives.
What the house never ships.
- Invented ratings, review counts, sales figures or certifications.
- Guaranteed performance claims — engineering concepts are labelled as pending prototype and testing.
- Full-width Bogolan overlays. Mudcloth is banded onto real tailoring zones: necks, cuffs, plackets, waistbands, side seams, shaft panels.
- Duplicated gallery views to reach seven. Leave the slot ready for the asset instead.