.” This is the only receive Shanghai where you’ll observe some popular kids,” poked fun a close friend at Ximon Lee, the final runway discussion at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll find lovely girls as well as classic Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic phrase for an affluent, wedded girl], those kinds of versions, however simply below you’ll get hot males!” The place for Lee’s humid train of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a new location previously this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional that released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Award as well as was actually the very first menswear developer to win the H&M Layout Honor that exact same year. Lee has a decent allotment of well-earned authority, but eats years moved relatively discreetly, shrouded due to the spacious club society setting that has actually long informed his clothes.This compilation, Lee mentioned backstage, was freely motivated due to the maturing tales in the Japanese creed film All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the idea of personal metamorphosis, and showed up to welcome the tensions of being young– feeling invincible, developing a sense of nostalgia, the tension of potential– through constructing a compilation that forecasted some special awkwardness.If none of the sounds particularly gorgeous or even like a closet ready for an excellent celebration, it’s because Lee’s major obsession isn’t sexual magnetism, as well as neither is the nightclub.
Some factors come naturally, however, so his plan was full of audacious and indisputably cool menswear types: micro pants, one-shoulder draped leadings or adorned container leadings, lustrous shirting, and a pair of glossy boxer shorts that a fellow attendee turned up attribute an integrated jockstrap. An operate of novel and also fashionable button-downs were actually the best engaging: The quick sleeves on one were in fact dress t shirt belts, while yet another’s were weaved to longer panels to generate full-length sleeves.This show noticeable Lee’s return to the runway in Shanghai. “This period has actually been actually challenging but it experienced meaningful to carry out a show because I wish to experience proud,” he claimed.
Lee had actually been actually showing his selection through lookbook and in showrooms. While it is actually good to be capable to find his develop close– don’t let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments deceive you, he’s rather the nimble technical developer– these garments are actually all finest experienced in context. The after-party that complied with the series happened in the exact same place: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift path had actually been actually earlier and the manner crowd gathering outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a lengthy and also exciting season, it was a chance to testify to to Lee’s brand name of cosmopolitan, rave-ready provocativeness in full throttle..