Z-Tee Bébé™ — The first heritage piece.
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Z-Tee Bébé™

Global Luxury. African Soul.

Organic cotton, flat seams, one whisper of Bazin Riche.

For the smallest wardrobe: GOTS-certified organic cotton in ivory and oat, with flat-locked seams, envelope shoulders and a single soft Bazin Riche or Woodin placket. Nothing scratches, nothing prints on the skin side.

Fashion is temporary. Identity is forever.

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The first heritage piece.

Engineered detail, held to house standard.

GOTS organic cotton

Certified organic jersey, undyed or low-impact dyed, tested for skin contact.

Flat-lock seams

Every seam is flat-locked and the label is printed, never sewn in.

Envelope shoulders

Wide envelope neck so it comes off over the head without a fuss.

Whisper panel

The heritage cloth is softened twice and sits on the outer shoulder only.

Z-Tee Bébé™ — The first heritage piece. — shown in Ivory, with the house African heritage cloth signature
Z-Tee Bébé™ — The first heritage piece. · Ivory

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Colourway

  • Ivory
  • Oat
  • Sage
  • Pearl
  • Soft Gold

Bazin Riche from Bamako and Woodin wax from Accra, double-softened for infant skin.

Virtual try-on

Z-Tee Bébé™

Seven views · 3D sweep

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Interactive 360 viewer. Left and right arrows rotate 15 degrees, hold Shift for 45, Page Up and Page Down turn a quarter, up and down arrows or plus and minus zoom, Home resets the view, Space toggles auto-rotation and F opens full screen.

Z-Tee Bébé™ — The first heritage piece. — Ivory, Z-View 360 at 0°

Z-Tee Bébé™ — The first heritage piece.

Z-View 360™

Inspect it like the atelier does.

Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom to loupe level, switch on material inspection to read the weave, tune the lighting rig and compare two views side by side.

Zoom · 1.0×

Studio lighting

Colourway

Try in Vibe Mirror™

Opens the fitting stage with this line already selected, using these exact frames.

Swing tags

  • Bazin PlacketEveryday FashionZipper Vibe™ · Woodin
  • Woodin TrimEveryday FashionZipper Vibe™ · Bazin Riche
  • Organic CottonEveryday FashionZipper Vibe™ · Bazin Riche

The range

One line. Every essential.

Cuts

  • Envelope tee
  • Bodysuit tee
  • Long-sleeve tee
  • Tee and short set

Heritage panels

  • Bazin Riche shoulder placket
  • Woodin trim
  • Bogolanfini-edge pocket

Sizing

  • Newborn – 24M
  • Snap gusset on bodysuits

How it works

  1. 01

    Choose the piece

    Tee, bodysuit or the two-piece set.

  2. 02

    Choose the trim

    Bazin Riche, Woodin or a Bogolanfini-edged pocket — all pre-softened.

  3. 03

    Wash first

    Wash before first wear at 30°C. No softener needed.

Story behind the design

The Bogolan story

Sirablen mudcloth in indigo & ivory, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff.

indigo & ivory

ZB-SIRA-IND-401

  • crop neck band
  • left cuff
  • right cuff
  • front placket

The cloth

Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a n'gallama leaf bath, then river-mud fermentation over three passes — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away.

The motif — Sirablen

The tape carries a broken line stepping across the ground cloth. In the Bamana reading, Sirablen is the road home — steadiness on a long journey. 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.

Why it sits where it sits

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.

The hand-work

Each length is block-matched panel to panel — the atelier discards any length where the repeat cannot be aligned. 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.

Global Heritage Fusion™

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.

Refinement provenance

Approved design board · studio capture pending

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.

  1. Owner-approved design board intakeIn progress

    Registered from the collection register entry; the full design board is still being filed.

  2. Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete

    Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Bébé Cut (ZG-7310) 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Z-Studio 4K refinement passNot yet run

    No refinement output released yet — this page reads the approved board unretouched.

  5. Seven-view studio captureNot yet run

    No angle has been shot yet; all 7 views read the design board.

Questions

Everything, answered.

Available finishes

  • Ivory
  • Oat
  • Sage
  • Pearl
  • Soft Gold

Heritage signature

Bazin Riche from Bamako and Woodin wax from Accra, double-softened for infant skin.

  • First days
  • Nursery
  • Family
  • Travel

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