.” This is the only receive Shanghai where you’ll see some hot children,” poked fun a buddy at Ximon Lee, the final runway presentation at the Shanghai compilations. “You’ll observe lovely gals and also classic Mandarin Tai Tai’s [a colloquial term for a prosperous, wedded gal], those sort of designs, however just here you’ll get hot men!” The site for Lee’s humid train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand-new location previously this year. For the unaware, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer who launched his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons.
He was shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Prize as well as was the initial menswear professional to win the H&M Concept Award that same year. Lee possesses a reasonable allotment of well-earned influence, however eats years relocated relatively subtly, shrouded due to the roomy nightclub society setting that has actually long informed his clothes.This assortment, Lee claimed backstage, was actually loosely motivated due to the maturing accounts in the Japanese creed movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the concept of personal transformation, and also showed up to welcome the stress of being actually younger– sensation invincible, creating a feeling of nostalgia, the stress of capacity– through building a compilation that projected some capitivating awkwardness.If none of this seems particularly gorgeous or like a closet enriched for a good gathering, it is actually considering that Lee’s main obsession isn’t allure, as well as neither is the nightclub.
Some traits come typically, however, so his proposition contained cheeky as well as without a doubt awesome menswear types: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped tops or ornamented tank leadings, glossy shirting, and also a set of glossy shorts that a fellow guest showed up attribute a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unique as well as cool button-downs were the absolute most compelling: The quick sleeves on one were in fact dress tee shirt cuffs, while an additional’s were actually knitted to longer panels to produce uncut sleeves.This reveal marked Lee’s go back to the path in Shanghai. “This season has been actually testing however it experienced meaningful to do a series since I desire to really feel pleased,” he pointed out.
Lee had been presenting his collection using lookbook and also in showrooms. While it is actually great to become able to find his work up close– don’t permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he is actually quite the quick specialized designer– these clothes are all best experienced in situation. The after-party that observed the program occurred in the same site: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift runway had been earlier and also the manner crowd gathering outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long and active time, it was an opportunity to testify to Lee’s brand name of metropolitan, rave-ready provocativeness in full throttle..