.” This is the only display in Shanghai where you’ll observe some trendy kids,” joked a pal at Ximon Lee, the final runway discussion at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll find appealing females and timeless Mandarin Tai Tai’s [a colloquial term for a wealthy, wedded female], those type of versions, yet just below you’ll get hot men!” The location for Lee’s humid train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a new location previously this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer that launched his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize and also was actually the initial menswear professional to succeed the H&M Concept Honor that same year. Lee possesses a decent reveal of well-earned standing, however eats years moved reasonably discreetly, shrouded by the roomy club society setting that has long updated his clothes.This collection, Lee pointed out backstage, was actually freely influenced by the coming of age accounts in the Oriental cult film All About Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the suggestion of individual transformation, and showed up to accept the tensions of being actually youthful– feeling bulletproof, establishing a sense of fond memories, the stress of capacity– by building an assortment that predicted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of this particular seems specifically alluring or even like an outfit enriched for a great party, it’s because Lee’s key obsession isn’t magnetism, and also neither is the nightclub.
Some points come naturally, however, so his proposition teemed with saucy and also indisputably cool menswear styles: micro shorts, one-shoulder covered leadings or even furnished container leadings, shiny shirting, and also a set of glossy boxers that a fellow attendee reported attribute a built-in jockstrap. A run of unfamiliar and also cool button-downs were the most convincing: The short sleeves on one were really gown tee belts, while yet another’s were actually knitted to longer doors to generate uncut sleeves.This reveal marked Lee’s return to the runway in Shanghai. “This season has actually been actually challenging however it really felt meaningful to accomplish a program given that I would like to experience happy,” he mentioned.
Lee had actually been actually presenting his selection by means of lookbook and in showrooms. While it’s really good to become able to see his develop close– don’t let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments fool you, he is actually quite the skilled technological developer– these outfits are all ideal experienced in circumstance. The after-party that observed the series occurred in the very same area: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift runway had actually been earlier and the fashion trend crowd event outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long and also exciting time, it was actually a chance to attest to Lee’s label of urban, rave-ready sexiness in full throttle..