.” This is the only display in Shanghai where you’ll find some trendy boys,” poked fun a close friend at Ximon Lee, the last path presentation at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll view pretty gals and classic Chinese Tai Tai’s [a colloquial phrase for a well-off, wedded woman], those sort of styles, but simply listed here you’ll fume men!” The location for Lee’s balmy succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a brand new place previously this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer who released his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Reward as well as was actually the initial menswear developer to gain the H&M Design Honor that very same year. Lee possesses a decent allotment of well-earned clout, but has for years relocated pretty discreetly, shrouded due to the cavernous nightclub culture atmosphere that has actually long educated his clothes.This assortment, Lee claimed backstage, was actually freely influenced due to the coming of age accounts in the Oriental creed movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the suggestion of private alteration, and appeared to take advantage of the stress of being actually younger– sensation invincible, establishing a feeling of fond memories, the stress of capacity– through constructing a compilation that predicted some special awkwardness.If none of this particular appears specifically alluring or like a closet ripe for a good event, it is actually given that Lee’s major preoccupation isn’t attraction, as well as neither is the nightclub.
Some factors happen typically, though, so his proposition contained saucy and also unquestionably trendy menswear designs: micro shorts, one-shoulder covered tops or furnished container bests, shiny shirting, and also a set of satiny underwear that a fellow guest reported function a built-in jockstrap. A run of unique and also fashionable button-downs were the most compelling: The short sleeves on one were really dress t shirt belts, while one more’s were actually weaved to longer panels to produce whole sleeves.This show marked Lee’s go back to the path in Shanghai. “This season has been challenging however it experienced significant to accomplish a program since I wish to feel honored,” he mentioned.
Lee had actually been actually presenting his assortment through lookbook and also in showrooms. While it’s good to become capable to find his develop close– do not allow the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments mislead you, he is actually pretty the ingenious technical professional– these clothes are all ideal experienced in circumstance. The after-party that observed the program happened in the exact same location: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift path had actually been earlier and the style crowd celebration outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long and also eventful period, it was a possibility to testify to to Lee’s label of modern, rave-ready provocativeness in full throttle..