When Björk’s production team needed custom inflatable latex pieces for a live performance, they commissioned Vex — wearable sculpture designed to transform the stage into something closer to a living art installation.
Björk does not do costumes. She does concepts. Every visual element of a Björk performance is an extension of the music itself — sculptural, immersive, deliberate. When a project operates at that level of artistic intention, the fabrication has to match. There is no tolerance for anything that reads as a prop or a shortcut.
Vex was commissioned to build custom inflatable latex pieces that could function as both wearable garments and visual architecture on stage. The work required designing from scratch in the Vex California studio — translating an artistic vision into physical form that had to hold its shape, its proportions, and its visual impact under stage lighting and the physical demands of live performance.
An inflatable is not a garment in the traditional sense. It is a pressurized structure that happens to be worn on a body. The engineering is as important as the design.
Custom inflatable work sits at the intersection of fashion, sculpture, and structural engineering. Every piece has to manage air pressure, maintain its intended form under movement, and survive the specific conditions of live performance — heat from lighting rigs, the physical intensity of being on stage, and the logistical reality of production schedules. Vex builds these pieces the same way it builds everything: by hand, in California, with zero margin for failure.
When a commission comes from an artist like Björk, the brief is never simple. The piece has to serve an artistic vision that is highly specific, often unprecedented, and absolutely non-negotiable on quality. This is not a pull from a showroom or a modification of an existing design. It is a ground-up fabrication built around a singular creative intent.
Vex has been taking commissions at this level for 26 years. The studio understands the difference between an artist who needs a garment and an artist who needs a collaborator — someone who can take a concept that exists only as an idea and turn it into a physical object that performs flawlessly on a global stage.
Vex works directly with artists and their creative teams to translate abstract visual concepts into engineered, wearable pieces. No intermediaries, no catalog limitations.
Custom inflatables require specialized knowledge of air-pressure dynamics, seam engineering, and material behavior that very few studios in the world possess.
Every piece is constructed to withstand the demands of live performance — lighting heat, physical movement, and the unforgiving scrutiny of a live audience.
Built by a small team of artisans using 0.45mm English latex. The same hands, the same studio, the same standard — whether the client is Björk or a private collector.
Björk joins a roster of artists who trust Vex to build what no one else can — custom latex fabrication for the moments that matter most.
From Lady Gaga’s ArtRave tour inflatables to Beyoncé’s NFL Christmas Gameday performance, from Katy Perry on American Idol to Paris Hilton’s Bad Bitch Academy — when the stage is global and the vision is uncompromising, the call goes to Vex. Every commission is treated with the same rigor, regardless of scale.
Whether you are a production team building a tour wardrobe, an artist with a vision that requires custom fabrication, or an individual looking for something made only for you — Vex custom design starts with a conversation.
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