.” This is the only show in Shanghai where you’ll find some popular boys,” joked a pal at Ximon Lee, the final runway discussion at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll see beautiful females and classic Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic phrase for an affluent, wedded lady], those kinds of versions, but simply below you’ll fume men!” The site for Lee’s humid procession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a brand-new site earlier this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer that introduced his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Prize and also was actually the initial menswear designer to win the H&M Style Honor that very same year. Lee possesses a decent portion of well-earned clout, but has for years moved relatively discreetly, shrouded due to the spacious nightclub culture environment that has long updated his clothes.This collection, Lee claimed backstage, was loosely inspired due to the coming of age stories in the Japanese creed movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the concept of individual transformation, and appeared to welcome the strains of being actually youthful– feeling invincible, cultivating a sense of fond memories, the pressure of ability– by designing a compilation that forecasted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of the seems especially attractive or like a wardrobe mature for a great gathering, it’s since Lee’s key preoccupation isn’t sexual magnetism, and also neither is actually the club.
Some traits come naturally, however, so his proposal was full of cheeky as well as without a doubt great menswear types: micro shorts, one-shoulder covered tops or even adorned tank bests, shiny shirting, and also a pair of satiny boxer shorts that a fellow attendee turned up component a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unique as well as funky button-downs were actually the most convincing: The quick sleeves on one were in fact gown t-shirt cuffs, while one more’s were actually knitted to longer panels to create full-length sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee’s come back to the path in Shanghai. “This time has actually been actually challenging but it felt relevant to carry out a show considering that I desire to really feel pleased,” he mentioned.
Lee had been actually showing his selection via lookbook and in showrooms. While it’s really good to become capable to find his develop close– do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments mislead you, he is actually pretty the ingenious specialized developer– these clothing are all finest experienced in situation. The after-party that followed the program happened in the same place: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift path had been actually earlier as well as the manner crowd event outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long as well as exciting time, it was actually an odds to attest to Lee’s company of municipal, rave-ready eroticism completely throttle..