.” This is the only receive Shanghai where you’ll see some in demand children,” poked fun a buddy at Ximon Lee, the last runway discussion at the Shanghai compilations. “You’ll find attractive girls and also traditional Chinese Tai Tai’s [a colloquial condition for a wealthy, married girl], those type of designs, yet just listed here you’ll get hot guys!” The location for Lee’s humid succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a brand new location previously this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who launched his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Prize as well as was actually the first menswear designer to gain the H&M Design Award that exact same year. Lee has a reasonable portion of well-earned influence, but eats years relocated reasonably discreetly, shrouded by the spacious club lifestyle setting that has long informed his clothes.This collection, Lee pointed out backstage, was actually freely inspired by the coming of age accounts in the Eastern cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the idea of personal alteration, as well as showed up to accept the tensions of being actually youthful– sensation bulletproof, building a sense of nostalgia, the stress of ability– by constructing a collection that forecasted some charming awkwardness.If none of the seems specifically attractive or even like a closet ripe for a really good party, it’s given that Lee’s main preoccupation isn’t sex appeal, and also neither is the nightclub.
Some traits come normally, though, so his proposal had plenty of audacious as well as without a doubt trendy menswear designs: small shorts, one-shoulder covered tops or adorned container leadings, shiny shirting, and also a pair of satiny underwear that a fellow participant reported attribute an integrated jockstrap. A run of unique as well as funky button-downs were one of the most powerful: The brief sleeves on one were in fact dress tee shirt belts, while yet another’s were actually weaved to longer boards to create uncut sleeves.This present marked Lee’s go back to the path in Shanghai. “This season has actually been actually challenging however it really felt purposeful to perform a show because I wish to feel honored,” he mentioned.
Lee had actually been showing his compilation by means of lookbook and in showrooms. While it is actually great to become capable to see his develop close– do not allow the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments deceive you, he is actually quite the quick technological designer– these clothing are all absolute best experienced in situation. The after-party that followed the series took place in the exact same location: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift runway had actually been earlier and also the style crowd event outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and active season, it was a chance to attest to Lee’s brand name of cosmopolitan, rave-ready provocativeness completely throttle..