.” This is actually the only receive Shanghai where you’ll view some in demand young boys,” poked fun a friend at Ximon Lee, the final path discussion at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll view lovely girls and traditional Chinese Tai Tai’s [a colloquial phrase for a prosperous, married lady], those type of versions, however merely listed below you’ll fume men!” The place for Lee’s humid procession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a brand new place earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer who launched his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize and was the very first menswear professional to win the H&M Design Award that exact same year. Lee has a reasonable portion of well-earned clout, yet has for years moved pretty discreetly, shrouded by the roomy club lifestyle atmosphere that has actually long updated his clothes.This collection, Lee said backstage, was actually loosely motivated by the coming of age accounts in the Japanese creed film Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the tip of individual metamorphosis, as well as appeared to welcome the strains of being youthful– feeling bulletproof, cultivating a sense of fond memories, the stress of possibility– by designing a selection that predicted some endearing awkwardness.If none of this appears particularly gorgeous or even like a closet ready for a really good event, it is actually due to the fact that Lee’s primary fixation isn’t allure, as well as neither is the nightclub.
Some things come naturally, though, so his proposition teemed with saucy as well as unquestionably awesome menswear designs: small pants, one-shoulder draped tops or even furnished tank leadings, shiny shirting, as well as a set of glossy boxers that a fellow participant turned up feature a built-in jockstrap. A run of novel and fashionable button-downs were actually one of the most convincing: The short sleeves on one were really gown tee shirt cuffs, while an additional’s were actually weaved to longer doors to create uncut sleeves.This reveal marked Lee’s come back to the runway in Shanghai. “This time has actually been actually testing yet it really felt meaningful to accomplish a show given that I want to feel glad,” he pointed out.
Lee had actually been actually revealing his collection through lookbook and also in display rooms. While it is actually excellent to be capable to see his work up close– do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments deceive you, he’s very the skilled specialized designer– these outfits are actually all absolute best experienced in context. The after-party that observed the series happened in the very same place: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift path had actually been actually earlier as well as the fashion crowd celebration outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a lengthy and also eventful season, it was actually a possibility to testify to Lee’s brand of urban, rave-ready sexuality in full throttle..