.” This is the only receive Shanghai where you’ll find some hot young boys,” joked a buddy at Ximon Lee, the last path presentation at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll see pretty females and classic Mandarin Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic term for an affluent, married lady], those sort of styles, but merely listed below you’ll get hot guys!” The place for Lee’s balmy train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand new location previously this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer who released his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Reward and was the first menswear designer to win the H&M Style Award that exact same year. Lee possesses a reasonable portion of well-earned clout, yet has for years moved pretty discreetly, shrouded by the roomy club lifestyle atmosphere that has actually long updated his clothes.This assortment, Lee stated backstage, was actually loosely encouraged due to the maturing stories in the Japanese cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the idea of personal metamorphosis, and also seemed to take advantage of the stress of being actually youthful– sensation bulletproof, cultivating a feeling of nostalgia, the tension of possibility– through creating a selection that projected some special awkwardness.If none of this seems particularly gorgeous or like a wardrobe ready for a great celebration, it’s because Lee’s primary fixation isn’t sex appeal, as well as neither is the club.
Some factors happen naturally, however, so his plan had lots of saucy as well as indisputably awesome menswear styles: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped leadings or even adorned container tops, lustrous shirting, and also a pair of glossy underpants that a fellow participant showed up component an integrated jockstrap. A run of novel as well as funky button-downs were the best convincing: The brief sleeves on one were really outfit tee belts, while one more’s were actually knitted to longer boards to create full-length sleeves.This present noticeable Lee’s return to the runway in Shanghai. “This season has been challenging however it felt meaningful to perform a series given that I wish to experience glad,” he claimed.
Lee had been presenting his collection through lookbook and also in display rooms. While it is actually excellent to be able to observe his develop close– do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments deceive you, he is actually very the skilled technical developer– these clothing are actually all ideal experienced in context. The after-party that complied with the show happened in the very same area: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift path had been actually earlier and also the fashion trend crowd event outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and active time, it was actually an opportunity to attest to Lee’s brand of urban, rave-ready amorousness in full throttle..