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Global Luxury. African Soul.
iPhone and Android cases in world-class materials, signed with a single heritage inlay.
Zipper Vibe Cases™ are built the way the house thinks: Italian calf leather, Japanese matte ceramic, Swiss aramid weave, German aluminium and brushed gold titanium — and then one narrow 8mm inlay of African cloth. Not a whole case in Bogolan mudcloth; a single deliberate thread. The small African accent is the mark of unity, beauty and excellence, set beside the gold diamond Z and the ZIPPER VIBE wordmark.
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The world's finest materials — with one thread of Africa.
Italian calf, Japanese ceramic, Swiss aramid, German aluminium — the case body is global.
A single 8mm hand-woven inlay: Bogolan mudcloth, Bazin Riche, Woodin, Congolese pagne, Djoula or Baoule.
Machined gold diamond Z emblem and a discreet ZIPPER VIBE wordmark on the inner lip.
3m drop-tested aramid core, raised camera lip, MagSafe and Qi2 wireless charging.
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One narrow inlay only — a small African signature on a world-material case.
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Z-VIBE Cases™ — The world's finest materials — with one thread of Africa.
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How it works
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Choose leather, ceramic, aramid or titanium in your device size.
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Select the single heritage inlay — one cloth, one stripe, nothing more.
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Add initials beneath the gold diamond Z.
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Inlay and rails are re-serviced at any house address.
Story behind the design
Kanaga mudcloth in indigo & ivory, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff.
indigo & ivory
ZB-KANA-IND-273
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. 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.
The tape carries twin arms above a bar, repeated along the tape. In the Bamana reading, Kanaga is the sign of the crossing — passage between worlds, carried by travellers. 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: crop neck band, left cuff, right 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 · Spot-clean the mudcloth with cool water and a soft cloth. Dry-clean the body of the piece; the tape is colour-set but not bleach-safe.
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 intakeIn progress
Registered from the collection register entry; the full design board is still being filed.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Cases Cut (ZG-1015) 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 22 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 4 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 passNot yet run
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One narrow inlay only — a small African signature on a world-material case.
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