Heritage · Since 2015
Sheer latex is having a moment in 2026. New labels are building their whole identity around the see-through dress, as if transparency were a discovery. It isn't. We put sheer latex on one of the biggest artists in the world more than a decade ago — and we're still cutting the same dress today, to your measurements, in twenty-eight colors.
The Tank Dress — the scoop-neck latex silhouette Vex has been making since 2015.
Trends move in circles. Craft doesn't. While the market rediscovers sheer latex season after season, the harder truth is that transparent latex is one of the most difficult finishes to execute well — it forgives nothing. Every seam, every join, every hand-finished edge is visible. There is nowhere to hide a shortcut. That is precisely why we've spent twenty-six years perfecting it, and why the dress that turned heads in 2015 still holds up today.
The Moment
In 2015, Rihanna wore the Vex Tank Dress in the BBHMM video — a sheer latex bodycon that became one of the most talked-about looks of the year. It wasn't a costume built for a single shoot. It was a production piece from our California studio, the same silhouette we still cut by hand today.
Rihanna in the Vex Tank Dress — "Bitch Better Have My Money," 2015.
Everyone is discovering sheer latex in 2026. We dressed it on the world's stage in 2015.
The same dress now comes in twenty-eight colorways, four of them fully sheer: Transparent Natural, Transparent Cloud, Transparent Peach, and Transparent Pink. Not a single "nude" option pretending to be inclusive — a genuine range, from high-shine black to translucent skin tones cut for how you actually want to wear them.
Our latex is imported from England and substantially thicker than the industry standard — which is why a Vex piece has weight, structure, and a mirror finish that thinner latex can't hold. Every Tank Dress is handmade in our California studio and cut in two lengths, Mini or Pencil, across sizes XS through 3. Sheer latex leaves no room for error, so we don't leave any: the finish you see on Rihanna is the finish we ship.
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$309
Scoop-neck latex bodycon. Handmade in California, made to order in your size and color — including all four sheer finishes. Ships in approximately 2–4 weeks.
Shop the Tank Dress Make it customPrefer it cut to your exact measurements, or in a finish you don't see here? Every Vex piece can be made to measure — start a custom order and we'll build it to you.
The silhouette the world already knows — cut by hand in California, to your measurements, in the color you actually want.
