.” This is the only show in Shanghai where you’ll find some popular kids,” poked fun a close friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway presentation at the Shanghai selections. “You’ll find appealing women and traditional Mandarin Tai Tai’s [a colloquial term for a rich, married gal], those kinds of versions, yet just listed below you’ll get hot men!” The site for Lee’s humid train of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which resumed at a new place earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who launched his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward as well as was actually the very first menswear professional to succeed the H&M Concept Honor that same year. Lee possesses a fair share of well-earned standing, however has for years relocated fairly subtly, shrouded by the cavernous nightclub society setting that has actually long informed his clothes.This compilation, Lee stated backstage, was freely motivated due to the maturing stories in the Oriental cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the tip of individual metamorphosis, and also appeared to embrace the tensions of being actually youthful– emotion invincible, building a sense of fond memories, the stress of ability– through designing an assortment that forecasted some special awkwardness.If none of this sounds particularly hot or like a closet ripe for an excellent celebration, it’s since Lee’s main obsession isn’t magnetism, and neither is actually the nightclub.
Some traits come normally, though, so his proposition had plenty of audacious and also indisputably trendy menswear types: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped bests or adorned storage tank tops, lustrous shirting, and a pair of satiny shorts that a fellow participant reported function an integrated jockstrap. A run of unique as well as fashionable button-downs were actually the most convincing: The quick sleeves on one were really gown tee shirt belts, while another’s were knitted to longer panels to generate unabridged sleeves.This present significant Lee’s return to the path in Shanghai. “This period has been actually testing but it felt relevant to carry out a series because I intend to feel proud,” he said.
Lee had been actually presenting his collection through lookbook and also in display rooms. While it’s excellent to be capable to view his develop close– do not let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments fool you, he’s fairly the skilled technical developer– these outfits are actually all best experienced in circumstance. The after-party that followed the series occurred in the exact same location: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier and also the fashion crowd gathering outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and eventful season, it was actually a possibility to testify to to Lee’s company of city, rave-ready sexuality completely throttle..