Met Gala 2024 · Collaboration
For the 2024 Met Gala — themed around Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion — Mrs. Meyer's and Rodarte set out to turn the household rubber glove into couture. Vex built it.
The Garden Couture Glove — designed by Rodarte, manufactured by Vex.
The brief was unusually specific. Take the most ordinary object in the kitchen — the yellow rubber dish glove — and reimagine it for the most-photographed red carpet of the year. Mrs. Meyer's brought the concept. Rodarte's Kate and Laura Mulleavy brought the design language: floral, romantic, slightly subversive. Vex brought the only thing capable of executing it at couture level: hand-poured latex and the studio that's been making it for 26 years.
The result was a limited-edition glove engineered to read as a domestic object and a runway piece at the same time. That tension — between utility and excess — was the point.
The Mulleavys' design called for sculptural floral elements layered onto an opera-length silhouette — petals and leaves that had to sit cleanly on the latex without warping the base, hold their shape under hot studio lighting, and survive shipping and styling without flattening. Every one of those constraints is a manufacturing problem before it's a design problem.
The same English-sourced latex used across the Vex collection. Smooth, high-shine, dense enough to hold sculpted appliqué without sagging. The base every petal sits on.
Each petal and leaf was cut, formed, and bonded by hand at the Vex studio. No printing, no shortcuts — sculptural latex flowers built individually and arranged onto the glove.
The 2024 theme asked guests to interpret Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion — fragility, gardens, things preserved and brought back to life. A latex glove sits exactly inside that idea. It references domestic ritual, the everyday object reframed as luxury, and the kind of botanical detailing the Mulleavys are known for. None of that lands without the right manufacturing partner. Latex is unforgiving — small mistakes in pour, cure, or bonding show up immediately under photography. The brief required a studio that could execute clean, repeatable work at couture standard.
Rodarte — Kate and Laura Mulleavy's Los Angeles-based label, known for romantic, garden-inflected eveningwear and a long history of red-carpet placements.
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day — the household cleaning brand built around plant-based formulas and garden-inspired scents.
Vex Clothing — California's longest-running latex couture house. Twenty-six years, 0.45mm latex sourced from England, every piece made in-house by a small team of artisans.
Custom & Couture
The Garden Couture Glove was a limited-edition collaboration and isn't available for retail purchase. But the same studio, the same artisans, and the same manufacturing standard are what every Vex custom order is built on. Custom commissions start at $2,500. Made-to-measure on existing styles is a smaller commitment.
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From red carpets to runway shows to limited-edition collaborations, Vex is the manufacturer designers reach for when latex has to be done at the highest level. Tell us what you want to build.
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