.” This is actually the only show in Shanghai where you’ll find some in demand kids,” poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway discussion at the Shanghai compilations. “You’ll view pleasing ladies and also timeless Mandarin Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic phrase for a rich, married female], those kinds of designs, but merely right here you’ll get hot men!” The venue for Lee’s humid succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a brand new location earlier this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer that introduced his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Reward and was the initial menswear professional to win the H&M Concept Award that very same year. Lee possesses a fair reveal of well-earned influence, but has for years relocated relatively discreetly, shrouded by the roomy nightclub culture ambience that has actually long informed his clothes.This compilation, Lee stated backstage, was actually loosely encouraged by the coming of age stories in the Japanese cult film All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the suggestion of personal metamorphosis, and also appeared to embrace the strains of being actually youthful– feeling bulletproof, building a sense of fond memories, the pressure of possibility– by building a collection that forecasted some endearing awkwardness.If none of this appears specifically gorgeous or even like a wardrobe ready for a good gathering, it is actually considering that Lee’s major obsession isn’t sex appeal, and also neither is actually the nightclub.
Some factors come typically, though, so his proposition had plenty of saucy and also undoubtedly awesome menswear designs: micro pants, one-shoulder covered leadings or even furnished tank tops, glossy shirting, and also a pair of glossy shorts that a fellow attendee turned up feature an integrated jockstrap. An operate of novel and funky button-downs were actually the most engaging: The brief sleeves on one were really gown tee shirt cuffs, while yet another’s were weaved to longer boards to generate whole sleeves.This present noticeable Lee’s come back to the runway in Shanghai. “This time has actually been challenging however it felt significant to do a show given that I intend to really feel glad,” he pointed out.
Lee had actually been revealing his compilation using lookbook and also in display rooms. While it is actually excellent to become able to view his work up close– do not let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments fool you, he’s quite the quick technological designer– these clothing are actually all best experienced in context. The after-party that followed the series took place in the same place: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift runway had actually been earlier as well as the fashion trend crowd celebration outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long as well as exciting period, it was actually a chance to testify to Lee’s brand of urbane, rave-ready amorousness in full throttle..