Stage & Stadium
A latex-and-leather ensemble built for the lights. Katy Perry opened her set with "Chained to the Rhythm" and rolled into "Dark Horse" and "Firework" wearing a custom Vex piece designed to hold up under stadium choreography — and command every camera in the room.
Katy Perry performing in a custom latex-and-leather ensemble by Vex Clothing.
Stage costuming has a brief most fashion never sees: it has to look right from the front row and from the back of an arena, survive a full set of choreography, and read clearly under saturated lighting. Latex passes that test in a way most fabrics can't. It catches light, holds its shape, and photographs without breaking up — which is why Vex has been a touring-act go-to for years.
For Katy's performance, we built the piece in a mixed latex-and-leather construction. Latex for the high-shine panels that read at distance. Leather where the silhouette needed structure. The combination gives the look its bite — sleek under the lights, sculptural up close.
An off-the-rack piece can carry a music video. A two-hour live set is a different problem. The fit has to be exact, the closures have to disappear, and the latex has to be cut to the artist's range of movement — not the other way around. Custom is the only way to land all three.
Every custom Vex stage piece is patterned around the performer's choreography. Reach, kick, breath. The cut adjusts so the latex never fights what the artist needs to do on stage.
Mixed-media constructions like Katy's are built panel by panel. Latex for the shine, leather for the architecture, both finished by hand. The seams are designed to hold under heat, sweat, and full performance load.
Custom stage pieces at Vex start with a single conversation between the artist's team and our studio. Reference imagery, fabric tests, fit forms, fittings. The Katy Perry ensemble took weeks of pattern work and panel testing before it touched a stage. That's the standard for everything we send out under a custom order — pop concert or private commission.
The same studio in California. The same artisans. 0.45mm English latex paired with the right leather weight for the silhouette. No shortcuts, no outsourcing.
Stage & Custom Commissions
Custom Vex starts at $2,500 and scales from there depending on construction. Mixed-media stage pieces like Katy's sit in the $5,000–$10,000+ range. Made-to-measure on existing styles is a smaller commitment — base price plus a 70% MTM fee.
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Whether it's a single statement piece or a full stage ensemble, every Vex commission is hand-built by the same small team that's been doing this for twenty-six years. Tell us what you need.
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