.” This is actually the only show in Shanghai where you’ll see some trendy kids,” joked a close friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway presentation at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll find lovely gals and also timeless Mandarin Tai Tai’s [a colloquial phrase for a rich, married female], those sort of models, but just right here you’ll fume men!” The venue for Lee’s steamy succession of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which resumed at a new location previously this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who launched his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Reward and was the very first menswear developer to succeed the H&M Design Award that very same year. Lee has a decent share of well-earned clout, however eats years relocated relatively discreetly, shrouded due to the roomy club lifestyle environment that has actually long updated his clothes.This collection, Lee said backstage, was freely inspired due to the maturing stories in the Eastern creed film Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the concept of private metamorphosis, as well as seemed to take advantage of the tensions of being youthful– sensation unyielding, developing a sense of fond memories, the stress of capacity– through building an assortment that forecasted some endearing awkwardness.If none of this appears especially sexy or like a wardrobe ripe for an excellent gathering, it is actually since Lee’s major preoccupation isn’t sex appeal, and also neither is the club.
Some traits come naturally, however, so his proposal had plenty of audacious as well as without a doubt trendy menswear designs: mini shorts, one-shoulder covered leadings or even embellished tank bests, shiny shirting, and a pair of glossy briefs that a fellow attendee turned up attribute an integrated jockstrap. An operate of unique and funky button-downs were actually the best engaging: The short sleeves on one were actually gown t shirt cuffs, while an additional’s were knitted to longer doors to create uncut sleeves.This reveal significant Lee’s come back to the path in Shanghai. “This time has actually been actually testing but it really felt significant to do a show due to the fact that I intend to experience pleased,” he said.
Lee had actually been revealing his collection through lookbook and also in display rooms. While it’s good to be capable to view his work up close– don’t let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments mislead you, he is actually very the quick specialized designer– these clothes are all ideal experienced in circumstance. The after-party that adhered to the program occurred in the very same site: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift path had been actually earlier and also the fashion crowd party outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a lengthy and active season, it was actually a possibility to testify to Lee’s label of cosmopolitan, rave-ready eroticism in full throttle..