.” This is the only show in Shanghai where you’ll observe some trendy kids,” joked a good friend at Ximon Lee, the final path presentation at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll see lovely gals and also timeless Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic term for a rich, wedded woman], those type of designs, yet merely here you’ll get hot males!” The venue for Lee’s humid procession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which resumed at a brand-new site previously this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize and also was actually the very first menswear designer to win the H&M Concept Award that exact same year. Lee has a decent reveal of well-earned authority, yet has for years relocated fairly subtly, shrouded by the roomy nightclub lifestyle environment that has actually long educated his clothes.This collection, Lee claimed backstage, was freely influenced by the coming of age accounts in the Eastern creed film Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the concept of individual alteration, and seemed to take advantage of the strains of being actually young– feeling unyielding, establishing a sense of nostalgia, the stress of possibility– through designing a collection that projected some capitivating awkwardness.If none of this particular seems especially alluring or like an outfit enriched for an excellent celebration, it is actually due to the fact that Lee’s primary obsession isn’t sexual magnetism, as well as neither is actually the club.
Some traits come typically, however, so his proposition had plenty of saucy and indisputably great menswear designs: small pants, one-shoulder draped bests or furnished storage tank bests, glossy shirting, and a pair of glossy briefs that a fellow guest turned up component an integrated jockstrap. A run of unfamiliar as well as cool button-downs were actually one of the most powerful: The quick sleeves on one were in fact gown tshirt cuffs, while yet another’s were weaved to longer doors to generate uncut sleeves.This reveal marked Lee’s return to the path in Shanghai. “This season has actually been actually challenging yet it experienced meaningful to carry out a series given that I want to feel glad,” he pointed out.
Lee had been actually revealing his collection through lookbook and also in showrooms. While it is actually great to be capable to view his work up close– do not allow the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments deceive you, he is actually fairly the ingenious technical developer– these garments are actually all best experienced in circumstance. The after-party that adhered to the program happened in the same area: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier and also the fashion trend group celebration outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long and also memorable time, it was a chance to attest to Lee’s brand of modern, rave-ready sexiness completely throttle..