.” This is the only receive Shanghai where you’ll find some trendy kids,” poked fun a buddy at Ximon Lee, the last runway discussion at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll observe beautiful ladies and also classic Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic term for a prosperous, wedded woman], those sort of models, but just here you’ll fume men!” The place for Lee’s steamy succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a new location earlier this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional that introduced his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward as well as was actually the initial menswear professional to succeed the H&M Style Award that exact same year. Lee possesses a reasonable share of well-earned clout, but has for years relocated relatively subtly, shrouded by the cavernous nightclub culture environment that has actually long updated his clothes.This collection, Lee mentioned backstage, was actually freely motivated due to the coming of age accounts in the Japanese cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the idea of private alteration, and also showed up to embrace the tensions of being younger– emotion invincible, cultivating a sense of fond memories, the tension of possibility– by building a selection that forecasted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of this appears particularly attractive or even like a closet mature for a good event, it is actually since Lee’s main preoccupation isn’t magnetism, as well as neither is actually the club.
Some points come naturally, though, so his proposal teemed with cheeky and also undeniably great menswear types: small pants, one-shoulder covered bests or embellished storage tank bests, glossy shirting, as well as a pair of satiny briefs that a fellow attendee reported component an integrated jockstrap. A run of unfamiliar and also funky button-downs were one of the most convincing: The brief sleeves on one were actually dress tee belts, while an additional’s were knitted to longer boards to create uncut sleeves.This show significant Lee’s return to the path in Shanghai. “This time has been challenging yet it experienced purposeful to perform a program considering that I wish to really feel pleased,” he pointed out.
Lee had actually been showing his compilation using lookbook and in display rooms. While it is actually great to become able to see his develop close– don’t let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments fool you, he is actually quite the ingenious specialized professional– these clothes are actually all greatest experienced in circumstance. The after-party that adhered to the program occurred in the same site: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had been actually earlier as well as the fashion group event outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a lengthy and also exciting period, it was actually a possibility to testify to Lee’s brand of municipal, rave-ready provocativeness completely throttle..