.” This is the only display in Shanghai where you’ll see some popular young boys,” poked fun a friend at Ximon Lee, the final runway discussion at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll see appealing women and also traditional Mandarin Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic term for an affluent, married gal], those type of styles, yet merely below you’ll fume men!” The location for Lee’s balmy train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which resumed at a brand-new location previously this year. For the unaware, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who introduced his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize and was the very first menswear professional to gain the H&M Design Award that same year. Lee possesses a decent allotment of well-earned influence, but has for years moved reasonably discreetly, shrouded by the cavernous club culture atmosphere that has long educated his clothes.This selection, Lee claimed backstage, was freely inspired due to the maturing tales in the Oriental cult film Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the concept of individual transformation, and showed up to accept the pressures of being younger– emotion unyielding, creating a sense of nostalgia, the stress of possibility– by creating an assortment that predicted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of the appears especially hot or even like an outfit ripe for a really good event, it is actually considering that Lee’s key obsession isn’t sexual magnetism, as well as neither is the nightclub.
Some points come typically, though, so his proposition had lots of audacious and also undoubtedly cool menswear types: mini shorts, one-shoulder draped tops or even adorned storage tank leadings, shiny shirting, as well as a pair of satiny shorts that a fellow attendee reported component a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unique and also cool button-downs were actually the most compelling: The quick sleeves on one were in fact dress tshirt cuffs, while an additional’s were weaved to longer doors to create uncut sleeves.This show marked Lee’s return to the path in Shanghai. “This period has actually been actually testing but it really felt meaningful to carry out a series because I wish to feel glad,” he mentioned.
Lee had actually been actually revealing his selection by means of lookbook and in display rooms. While it is actually great to be capable to find his work up close– don’t let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments mislead you, he is actually rather the quick specialized professional– these outfits are actually all absolute best experienced in circumstance. The after-party that complied with the program occurred in the very same place: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had actually been earlier and also the fashion crowd event outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a lengthy as well as eventful period, it was actually a chance to bear witness to Lee’s label of urbane, rave-ready amorousness in full throttle..