.” This is actually the only show in Shanghai where you’ll see some popular kids,” poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway presentation at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll see lovely ladies and also timeless Mandarin Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic term for a rich, married woman], those kinds of designs, but just here you’ll fume guys!” The site for Lee’s steamy succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand new place earlier this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer who released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Award as well as was actually the 1st menswear professional to win the H&M Layout Award that same year. Lee possesses a reasonable portion of well-earned clout, however eats years relocated fairly discreetly, shrouded due to the spacious nightclub society ambience that has long educated his clothes.This collection, Lee said backstage, was actually freely inspired by the maturing accounts in the Oriental creed movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the idea of personal metamorphosis, and also showed up to take advantage of the strains of being actually younger– emotion invincible, establishing a sense of fond memories, the pressure of capacity– by constructing a compilation that projected some special awkwardness.If none of this appears specifically attractive or even like a wardrobe enriched for an excellent party, it’s given that Lee’s key fixation isn’t sexual magnetism, and neither is actually the nightclub.
Some factors happen naturally, though, so his proposal had plenty of cheeky and also undoubtedly amazing menswear types: mini shorts, one-shoulder covered tops or ornamented storage tank tops, glossy shirting, and a pair of glossy briefs that a fellow attendee turned up function a built-in jockstrap. A run of unique and fashionable button-downs were the best compelling: The brief sleeves on one were in fact dress shirt belts, while one more’s were weaved to longer panels to develop uncut sleeves.This present significant Lee’s go back to the runway in Shanghai. “This time has been actually challenging however it experienced relevant to perform a show since I wish to experience happy,” he mentioned.
Lee had been actually presenting his selection via lookbook and in display rooms. While it is actually good to be capable to observe his work up close– don’t permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments mislead you, he’s fairly the ingenious specialized developer– these clothing are actually all ideal experienced in context. The after-party that observed the program took place in the same place: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift path had actually been actually earlier and the manner group gathering outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long as well as memorable period, it was actually an opportunity to demonstrate to Lee’s label of city, rave-ready eroticism completely throttle..