.” This is actually the only receive Shanghai where you’ll view some popular children,” joked a friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway presentation at the Shanghai selections. “You’ll find lovely ladies and also timeless Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic term for a wealthy, married gal], those kinds of models, however merely here you’ll get hot males!” The place for Lee’s humid succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand new location previously this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer who introduced his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize and also was actually the first menswear developer to win the H&M Design Honor that exact same year. Lee has a decent reveal of well-earned authority, yet eats years moved fairly subtly, shrouded due to the spacious nightclub society environment that has long notified his clothes.This collection, Lee stated backstage, was actually freely encouraged by the ripening tales in the Eastern creed movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the idea of personal transformation, as well as seemed to embrace the tensions of being actually young– sensation invincible, creating a feeling of nostalgia, the pressure of ability– through building a collection that predicted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of the seems particularly hot or like a wardrobe ready for a good celebration, it is actually due to the fact that Lee’s main obsession isn’t sex appeal, and neither is actually the club.
Some things happen naturally, however, so his plan had lots of cheeky and without a doubt great menswear styles: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped leadings or even furnished container leadings, glossy shirting, as well as a pair of glossy underwear that a fellow attendee turned up attribute a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unfamiliar and also fashionable button-downs were actually the best powerful: The quick sleeves on one were really gown shirt belts, while yet another’s were knitted to longer panels to produce whole sleeves.This show marked Lee’s come back to the path in Shanghai. “This time has actually been challenging however it experienced relevant to carry out a series given that I would like to feel glad,” he mentioned.
Lee had actually been presenting his selection via lookbook and in display rooms. While it is actually excellent to be capable to see his work up close– do not let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments deceive you, he’s quite the ingenious technical developer– these garments are all finest experienced in context. The after-party that observed the series occurred in the exact same area: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift runway had actually been earlier and also the style group party outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and also eventful time, it was an odds to bear witness to Lee’s company of urban, rave-ready sexiness completely throttle..