.” This is actually the only display in Shanghai where you’ll see some in demand kids,” joked a close friend at Ximon Lee, the final path presentation at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll view beautiful females and classic Chinese Tai Tai’s [a colloquial term for an affluent, married girl], those kinds of styles, yet just here you’ll get hot guys!” The location for Lee’s balmy succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a new site previously this year. For the unaware, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer that released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons.
He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward as well as was actually the very first menswear designer to win the H&M Layout Award that same year. Lee possesses a fair portion of well-earned standing, yet has for years relocated relatively discreetly, shrouded due to the roomy club society ambience that has long informed his clothes.This assortment, Lee pointed out backstage, was actually loosely inspired due to the ripening accounts in the Oriental cult film All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the idea of individual metamorphosis, and seemed to embrace the stress of being actually youthful– sensation bulletproof, cultivating a feeling of nostalgia, the tension of capacity– by designing a selection that forecasted some special awkwardness.If none of this appears specifically alluring or even like an outfit ready for a really good party, it’s considering that Lee’s main obsession isn’t sexual magnetism, and also neither is the nightclub.
Some points come normally, though, so his plan was full of saucy and also unquestionably awesome menswear types: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped tops or even furnished storage tank tops, glossy shirting, and a set of satiny underpants that a fellow guest reported component a built-in jockstrap. A run of unique and also cool button-downs were actually one of the most compelling: The brief sleeves on one were in fact gown t-shirt belts, while yet another’s were actually knitted to longer panels to make unabridged sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee’s return to the runway in Shanghai. “This season has been testing but it felt purposeful to carry out a program since I desire to feel pleased,” he claimed.
Lee had been actually showing his assortment by means of lookbook as well as in showrooms. While it is actually good to be able to see his develop close– do not let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments mislead you, he’s very the quick technological designer– these clothes are actually all greatest experienced in situation. The after-party that observed the program happened in the very same area: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift path had been earlier as well as the fashion group party outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and also memorable time, it was actually an odds to bear witness to Lee’s label of urban, rave-ready sexiness completely throttle..