.” This is actually the only receive Shanghai where you’ll see some hot children,” joked a friend at Ximon Lee, the final path discussion at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll see beautiful girls as well as classic Chinese Tai Tai’s [a colloquial phrase for an affluent, wedded gal], those type of styles, yet just listed below you’ll fume males!” The site for Lee’s humid train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand-new place previously this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer that released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Award and also was the first menswear developer to succeed the H&M Design Honor that exact same year. Lee possesses a decent share of well-earned clout, yet has for years relocated fairly subtly, shrouded by the roomy nightclub lifestyle setting that has actually long educated his clothes.This collection, Lee claimed backstage, was actually freely encouraged by the maturing stories in the Oriental cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the idea of individual transformation, as well as appeared to embrace the tensions of being youthful– sensation invincible, creating a sense of nostalgia, the stress of possibility– through building a selection that projected some endearing awkwardness.If none of the sounds particularly gorgeous or like a closet ripe for a really good celebration, it is actually since Lee’s primary fixation isn’t magnetism, as well as neither is actually the nightclub.
Some factors come typically, though, so his proposition teemed with saucy and also without a doubt great menswear types: micro pants, one-shoulder draped leadings or even embellished tank tops, glossy shirting, as well as a pair of satiny underwear that a fellow attendee showed up attribute a built-in jockstrap. A run of novel and fashionable button-downs were one of the most engaging: The short sleeves on one were in fact outfit shirt cuffs, while one more’s were knitted to longer boards to create unabridged sleeves.This reveal marked Lee’s come back to the path in Shanghai. “This season has actually been actually testing but it experienced purposeful to carry out a series due to the fact that I would like to experience pleased,” he stated.
Lee had been actually revealing his selection by means of lookbook and also in display rooms. While it is actually excellent to become able to find his develop close– do not allow the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he is actually rather the nimble specialized developer– these clothes are actually all ideal experienced in situation. The after-party that followed the program happened in the very same place: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift path had actually been actually earlier and the style crowd gathering outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long and also memorable time, it was a chance to testify to to Lee’s label of metropolitan, rave-ready eroticism in full throttle..