.” This is the only display in Shanghai where you’ll find some popular kids,” poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the final path presentation at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll see beautiful females as well as timeless Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic condition for a well-off, married woman], those kinds of models, yet merely here you’ll fume males!” The place for Lee’s balmy procession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a new area previously this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional that launched his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Reward and was the initial menswear professional to gain the H&M Design Award that exact same year. Lee possesses a reasonable allotment of well-earned influence, but eats years relocated pretty discreetly, shrouded by the roomy nightclub society atmosphere that has actually long notified his clothes.This collection, Lee said backstage, was freely encouraged due to the ripening accounts in the Oriental cult film All About Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the concept of personal alteration, as well as seemed to take advantage of the pressures of being actually young– feeling bulletproof, creating a sense of nostalgia, the pressure of possibility– by creating an assortment that projected some endearing awkwardness.If none of this sounds particularly gorgeous or like a wardrobe ripe for a good event, it’s due to the fact that Lee’s main obsession isn’t magnetism, and also neither is actually the nightclub.
Some points come typically, though, so his proposition teemed with saucy and also unquestionably trendy menswear designs: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped tops or even ornamented container bests, glossy shirting, and also a pair of satiny underpants that a fellow guest turned up attribute a built-in jockstrap. A run of novel and fashionable button-downs were actually the most powerful: The brief sleeves on one were actually outfit t-shirt cuffs, while one more’s were weaved to longer doors to develop uncut sleeves.This show noticeable Lee’s come back to the runway in Shanghai. “This season has actually been actually testing however it experienced significant to do a show given that I desire to feel pleased,” he said.
Lee had actually been presenting his selection through lookbook as well as in showrooms. While it’s great to be capable to see his work up close– don’t allow the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments deceive you, he’s fairly the skilled technological developer– these clothes are actually all ideal experienced in context. The after-party that adhered to the series happened in the exact same location: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift path had been earlier and the manner group gathering outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and also memorable period, it was a chance to demonstrate to Lee’s company of city, rave-ready provocativeness in full throttle..