.” This is the only show in Shanghai where you’ll observe some in demand young boys,” joked a friend at Ximon Lee, the final path discussion at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll find lovely females as well as classic Mandarin Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic phrase for a rich, married gal], those sort of versions, but simply below you’ll get hot men!” The venue for Lee’s steamy succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a brand-new site earlier this year. For the unaware, 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 shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Prize and also was the first menswear professional to win the H&M Style Award that same year. Lee has a decent reveal of well-earned authority, however eats years relocated fairly discreetly, shrouded due to the spacious nightclub lifestyle environment that has long notified his clothes.This assortment, Lee mentioned backstage, was loosely influenced due to the maturing tales in the Eastern creed movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the tip of personal transformation, as well as appeared to accept the pressures of being younger– emotion bulletproof, building a feeling of nostalgia, the stress of possibility– by constructing a collection that predicted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of the seems specifically seductive or even like a wardrobe ready for a really good celebration, it’s due to the fact that Lee’s main preoccupation isn’t allure, as well as neither is actually the club.
Some factors happen naturally, however, so his proposition teemed with cheeky and unquestionably cool menswear types: small pants, one-shoulder covered leadings or even embellished storage tank leadings, shiny shirting, as well as a pair of glossy briefs that a fellow attendee reported component a built-in jockstrap. A run of novel as well as fashionable button-downs were the absolute most compelling: The short sleeves on one were really dress shirt cuffs, while one more’s were weaved to longer doors to generate whole sleeves.This reveal significant Lee’s go back to the runway in Shanghai. “This time has actually been actually challenging however it experienced purposeful to do a show because I wish to experience glad,” he pointed out.
Lee had been actually showing his assortment via lookbook and in showrooms. While it is actually great to become capable to see his work up close– do not allow the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he’s quite the deft technological professional– these garments are actually all best experienced in context. The after-party that followed the show took place in the very same area: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had actually been earlier and also the style group event outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and memorable period, it was a chance to demonstrate to Lee’s company of city, rave-ready amorousness in full throttle..