.” This is actually the only receive Shanghai where you’ll observe some hot kids,” joked a buddy at Ximon Lee, the last path discussion at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll find beautiful women and timeless Chinese Tai Tai’s [a colloquial term for a wealthy, married female], those type of designs, but just listed below you’ll get hot males!” The venue for Lee’s balmy train of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand-new location earlier this year. For the unaware, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer who introduced his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward as well as was the 1st menswear professional to gain the H&M Style Honor that very same year. Lee has a fair reveal of well-earned standing, but eats years relocated relatively discreetly, shrouded due to the spacious nightclub society ambience that has long notified his clothes.This compilation, Lee said backstage, was freely encouraged due to the ripening tales in the Oriental cult film All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the concept of private transformation, and showed up to embrace the pressures of being youthful– feeling unyielding, developing a feeling of nostalgia, the pressure of capacity– through designing a selection that forecasted some endearing awkwardness.If none of this sounds specifically sexy or like an outfit ready for a really good party, it’s because Lee’s main obsession isn’t sex appeal, and also neither is actually the club.
Some points come normally, however, so his plan teemed with cheeky and without a doubt awesome menswear styles: small shorts, one-shoulder covered tops or adorned tank tops, shiny shirting, and a set of glossy briefs that a fellow attendee reported component a built-in jockstrap. A run of unfamiliar and also funky button-downs were actually the absolute most compelling: The brief sleeves on one were in fact outfit t-shirt cuffs, while another’s were knitted to longer boards to develop whole sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee’s go back to the path in Shanghai. “This time has actually been testing yet it really felt meaningful to perform a show since I intend to experience honored,” he mentioned.
Lee had been actually showing his assortment through lookbook as well as in showrooms. While it is actually great to become capable to view his work up close– don’t permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he’s very the nimble technical developer– these garments are actually all finest experienced in circumstance. The after-party that complied with the show took place in the exact same area: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift path had actually been earlier as well as the fashion crowd gathering outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long and eventful season, it was actually a chance to testify to to Lee’s label of urban, rave-ready amorousness completely throttle..