.” This is the only display in Shanghai where you’ll observe some hot kids,” joked a friend at Ximon Lee, the last path discussion at the Shanghai compilations. “You’ll view attractive women as well as timeless Chinese Tai Tai’s [a colloquial condition for a rich, married gal], those type of styles, but only listed below you’ll get hot males!” The site for Lee’s balmy procession of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a new site previously this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer that launched his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Prize as well as was the very first menswear developer to win the H&M Style Honor that same year. Lee possesses a reasonable reveal of well-earned clout, but has for years moved pretty subtly, shrouded due to the cavernous club culture atmosphere that has actually long notified his clothes.This selection, Lee stated backstage, was actually loosely influenced by the ripening accounts in the Eastern cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the suggestion of individual metamorphosis, and appeared to accept the tensions of being actually youthful– emotion bulletproof, developing a sense of fond memories, the stress of possibility– through designing a collection that projected some charming awkwardness.If none of this seems especially attractive or even like a wardrobe mature for an excellent party, it is actually due to the fact that Lee’s key preoccupation isn’t sexual magnetism, and neither is the nightclub.
Some factors come naturally, however, so his proposal was full of audacious and also undeniably awesome menswear styles: small pants, one-shoulder draped tops or ornamented tank bests, glossy shirting, and also a pair of satiny underpants that a fellow guest reported feature an integrated jockstrap. A run of unique and funky button-downs were the absolute most powerful: The brief sleeves on one were really outfit t shirt cuffs, while an additional’s were knitted to longer boards to create whole sleeves.This show marked Lee’s return to the runway in Shanghai. “This time has actually been actually testing however it experienced meaningful to accomplish a series because I would like to really feel proud,” he stated.
Lee had actually been actually revealing his assortment via lookbook as well as in showrooms. While it’s great to be able to view his develop close– don’t let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments deceive you, he is actually very the nimble specialized developer– these clothes are actually all finest experienced in situation. The after-party that adhered to the show occurred in the very same place: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift path had actually been actually earlier and the fashion trend crowd celebration outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and eventful period, it was a chance to testify to to Lee’s company of city, rave-ready amorousness in full throttle..