.” This is actually the only show in Shanghai where you’ll find some in demand kids,” poked fun a pal at Ximon Lee, the final runway discussion at the Shanghai selections. “You’ll observe appealing girls and also timeless Mandarin Tai Tai’s [a colloquial term for a wealthy, wedded woman], those type of models, but just below you’ll fume guys!” The location for Lee’s humid succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand-new site earlier this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional that launched his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons.
He was shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Reward and also was actually the first menswear professional to win the H&M Concept Award that same year. Lee has a reasonable allotment of well-earned clout, yet has for years moved pretty discreetly, shrouded due to the roomy club culture atmosphere that has actually long notified his clothes.This collection, Lee pointed out backstage, was actually loosely encouraged due to the coming of age accounts in the Oriental creed movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the suggestion of personal metamorphosis, and also appeared to take advantage of the tensions of being younger– emotion invincible, creating a feeling of fond memories, the stress of potential– through constructing an assortment that predicted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of this particular appears specifically attractive or like a closet ripe for an excellent party, it’s due to the fact that Lee’s key obsession isn’t attraction, and neither is the club.
Some factors happen normally, however, so his proposal contained cheeky and also without a doubt great menswear designs: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped bests or embellished container tops, glossy shirting, and a set of satiny briefs that a fellow participant turned up attribute a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unfamiliar as well as fashionable button-downs were actually one of the most compelling: The short sleeves on one were actually gown tee shirt belts, while one more’s were knitted to longer boards to produce full-length sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee’s return to the runway in Shanghai. “This season has actually been actually testing yet it really felt significant to perform a series due to the fact that I desire to really feel glad,” he claimed.
Lee had actually been showing his selection by means of lookbook and in display rooms. While it’s good to become capable to observe his develop close– do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he is actually fairly the skilled technical designer– these garments are actually all finest experienced in context. The after-party that complied with the program occurred in the exact same area: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift runway had been earlier and also the style crowd party outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long and also active period, it was a chance to testify to Lee’s label of city, rave-ready sexiness in full throttle..