Womenswear
Global Luxury. African Soul.
Leggings, bras, swim and base layers — engineered, then signed.
Femme is the body line: high-waist leggings, supportive bras, swim and base layers in Italian and Portuguese performance knits, each cut with one narrow African weave at the waistband, side seam or shoulder and the gold diamond Z.
Fashion is temporary. Identity is forever.
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Second-skin performance, house signature.
Four-way stretch, squat-opaque and colour-fast, woven in Italy and Portugal.
One woven Bogolan mudcloth, woodin, bazin riche, Centrafrique or pagne congolais band per garment — never a print.
Encapsulated support to a G cup, moisture-wicking lining and no plastic clasps against the skin.
Chlorine- and salt-resistant fibre with UPF 50+ across the whole swim range.
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Colourway
Bogolan mudcloth, Woodin, Bazin Riche, Centrafrique and Pagne Congolais — one woven band per garment.
Seven views · 3D sweep
1 / 2 · Z-VIBE Femme™ — Second-skin performance, house signature.
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-VIBE Femme™ — Second-skin performance, house signature.
Z-View 360™
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.
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Studio lighting
Colourway
Opens the fitting stage with this line already selected, using these exact frames.
Swing tags
The range
How it works
01
Size guide plus a video fitting with an atelier advisor.
02
Bogolan mudcloth, woodin, bazin riche, Centrafrique or pagne congolais on the signature band.
03
Machine wash cold; the knit and the weave are made to survive it.
Story behind the design
Ntomi mudcloth in burgundy & black, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff.
burgundy & black
ZB-NTOM-BUR-405
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a double n'gallama bath with a lime-brightened reserve for the pale ground — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away.
The tape carries fanned chevrons opening from a spine. In the Bamana reading, Ntomi is the shade tree — gathering, welcome, shelter for others. 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 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.
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 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™ Femme Cut (ZG-8234) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, woven-cord relief echoing a Bogolan warp, high-walled bootie last with a wrapped ankle cradle, stack 18 mm heel / 16 mm forefoot, 2 mm drop, laced in narrow Bogolan ribbon lace with a hand-knotted stopper, 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
No refinement output released yet — this page reads the approved board unretouched.
Seven-view studio captureNot yet run
No angle has been shot yet; all 7 views read the design board.
Questions
Available finishes
Heritage signature
Bogolan mudcloth, Woodin, Bazin Riche, Centrafrique and Pagne Congolais — one woven band per garment.
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