.” This is the only receive Shanghai where you’ll view some trendy young boys,” poked fun a pal at Ximon Lee, the final path presentation at the Shanghai selections. “You’ll observe pretty girls and classic Mandarin Tai Tai’s [a colloquial term for a prosperous, wedded woman], those sort of styles, yet merely below you’ll fume males!” The location for Lee’s humid procession of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which resumed at a new location previously this year. For the unaware, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons.
He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward as well as was actually the first menswear designer to gain the H&M Style Award that exact same year. Lee possesses a fair allotment of well-earned clout, but eats years relocated pretty discreetly, shrouded by the spacious club lifestyle ambience that has actually long updated his clothes.This collection, Lee said backstage, was actually loosely inspired due to the coming of age tales in the Eastern creed movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the suggestion of individual metamorphosis, and also appeared to embrace the strains of being actually young– sensation invincible, creating a feeling of fond memories, the stress of capacity– by constructing a compilation that predicted some endearing awkwardness.If none of this particular sounds especially alluring or like an outfit enriched for an excellent gathering, it’s since Lee’s main obsession isn’t magnetism, and also neither is the club.
Some points come typically, however, so his plan teemed with cheeky as well as undeniably amazing menswear styles: small pants, one-shoulder draped tops or furnished container bests, shiny shirting, and also a set of satiny briefs that a fellow participant reported component a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unique as well as cool button-downs were actually the best convincing: The quick sleeves on one were in fact dress t shirt cuffs, while yet another’s were weaved to longer doors to create unabridged sleeves.This show significant Lee’s come back to the path in Shanghai. “This time has actually been actually challenging but it felt relevant to carry out a program since I wish to really feel pleased,” he stated.
Lee had actually been revealing his compilation by means of lookbook and in showrooms. While it’s good to be able to see his work up close– do not let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments fool you, he is actually quite the ingenious specialized developer– these clothing are actually all ideal experienced in circumstance. The after-party that followed the series occurred in the same site: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had been actually earlier and the manner crowd celebration outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long as well as active season, it was actually an opportunity to testify to Lee’s label of urban, rave-ready sexiness in full throttle..