.” This is actually the only show in Shanghai where you’ll find some hot boys,” poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway presentation at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll find appealing women and also traditional Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic phrase for a wealthy, married girl], those sort of versions, but just below you’ll fume guys!” The place for Lee’s steamy train of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which resumed at a new place previously this year. For the unaware, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer that released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons.
He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize and was actually the very first menswear professional to win the H&M Layout Honor that very same year. Lee has a decent reveal of well-earned influence, but has for years relocated reasonably discreetly, shrouded by the spacious club culture environment that has actually long notified his clothes.This assortment, Lee claimed backstage, was actually freely influenced by the ripening tales in the Oriental cult movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the idea of personal metamorphosis, and also seemed to welcome the stress of being actually younger– sensation unyielding, cultivating a sense of fond memories, the tension of possibility– by creating a compilation that forecasted some special awkwardness.If none of the sounds specifically sexy or like a closet enriched for a really good event, it’s due to the fact that Lee’s major preoccupation isn’t attraction, and neither is the club.
Some things happen naturally, though, so his proposition contained audacious as well as undeniably cool menswear types: small pants, one-shoulder draped tops or even adorned container leadings, glossy shirting, as well as a pair of glossy underpants that a fellow guest reported attribute an integrated jockstrap. An operate of unique and cool button-downs were the absolute most compelling: The brief sleeves on one were actually dress shirt cuffs, while an additional’s were weaved to longer panels to make uncut sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee’s return to the path in Shanghai. “This season has been testing yet it really felt significant to perform a program because I would like to experience glad,” he stated.
Lee had actually been actually showing his collection using lookbook and in showrooms. While it’s excellent to become able to find his work up close– don’t let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he’s very the deft technological designer– these clothing are actually all finest experienced in circumstance. The after-party that complied with the series occurred in the exact same area: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift runway had been earlier as well as the style crowd celebration outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a lengthy as well as active season, it was actually an opportunity to testify to to Lee’s brand of modern, rave-ready eroticism completely throttle..