.” This is the only display in Shanghai where you’ll view some popular boys,” poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the last path presentation at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll observe beautiful females as well as classic Mandarin Tai Tai’s [a colloquial phrase for an affluent, wedded girl], those kinds of versions, yet merely below you’ll get hot guys!” The venue for Lee’s humid train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a brand new location earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize and was actually the very first menswear developer to gain the H&M Design Honor that exact same year. Lee has a reasonable share of well-earned standing, yet has for years moved fairly subtly, shrouded by the roomy nightclub culture environment that has actually long notified his clothes.This compilation, Lee pointed out backstage, was freely influenced due to the coming of age tales in the Eastern cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the tip of private transformation, and also showed up to accept the tensions of being actually younger– emotion unyielding, cultivating a sense of fond memories, the stress of capacity– through creating a compilation that predicted some special awkwardness.If none of this seems especially seductive or even like a wardrobe ripe for an excellent gathering, it is actually given that Lee’s major fixation isn’t sexual magnetism, and neither is the nightclub.
Some points happen naturally, though, so his proposal contained saucy and also indisputably trendy menswear designs: small pants, one-shoulder draped tops or embellished storage tank tops, shiny shirting, and also a set of satiny underwear that a fellow participant turned up component a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unique and funky button-downs were actually the absolute most powerful: The brief sleeves on one were actually dress tee shirt cuffs, while an additional’s were actually knitted to longer doors to produce whole sleeves.This reveal marked Lee’s go back to the runway in Shanghai. “This season has been actually challenging however it really felt significant to do a program due to the fact that I would like to experience glad,” he stated.
Lee had actually been revealing his collection using lookbook as well as in display rooms. While it is actually really good to become capable to see his develop close– do not let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments mislead you, he is actually rather the nimble technical professional– these clothing are actually all finest experienced in situation. The after-party that followed the series happened in the exact same area: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier and also the manner crowd gathering outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long and active season, it was a possibility to demonstrate to Lee’s brand name of urbane, rave-ready provocativeness in full throttle..