.” This is actually the only display in Shanghai where you’ll observe some hot boys,” poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the last path presentation at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll find appealing girls as well as traditional Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic phrase for an affluent, wedded lady], those type of versions, yet simply listed here you’ll get hot men!” The site for Lee’s humid procession of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a new location earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer who launched his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward and was actually the first menswear developer to succeed the H&M Design Honor that exact same year. Lee possesses a decent share of well-earned clout, however has for years moved reasonably subtly, shrouded due to the spacious club society environment that has long updated his clothes.This selection, Lee stated backstage, was actually loosely motivated due to the ripening stories in the Eastern creed movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the idea of personal transformation, and seemed to embrace the tensions of being actually young– emotion bulletproof, building a sense of nostalgia, the tension of possibility– by creating an assortment that projected some special awkwardness.If none of this particular sounds specifically hot or even like an outfit enriched for an excellent party, it’s because Lee’s key obsession isn’t attraction, and neither is actually the nightclub.
Some factors happen typically, however, so his proposal was full of audacious and also indisputably amazing menswear designs: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped bests or even ornamented storage tank bests, shiny shirting, as well as a set of satiny boxer shorts that a fellow participant showed up function a built-in jockstrap. A run of unique and cool button-downs were actually one of the most convincing: The brief sleeves on one were actually dress tee belts, while an additional’s were knitted to longer panels to generate full-length sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee’s come back to the path in Shanghai. “This season has actually been actually testing however it really felt purposeful to perform a program given that I intend to really feel honored,” he stated.
Lee had been actually revealing his assortment via lookbook and in display rooms. While it’s great to become capable to see his work up close– do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he’s quite the deft technical designer– these clothes are all finest experienced in circumstance. The after-party that observed the program occurred in the same area: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier and also the manner crowd celebration outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and also eventful time, it was a chance to testify to to Lee’s label of city, rave-ready eroticism in full throttle..