.” This is the only display in Shanghai where you’ll view some popular children,” joked a good friend at Ximon Lee, the final runway presentation at the Shanghai compilations. “You’ll see beautiful girls as well as classic Mandarin Tai Tai’s [a colloquial phrase for a well-off, wedded girl], those type of styles, however just below you’ll fume guys!” The place for Lee’s balmy procession of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a new site earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer that launched his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons.
He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize as well as was actually the very first menswear professional to gain the H&M Style Award that same year. Lee possesses a fair reveal of well-earned clout, however has for years moved fairly subtly, shrouded due to the cavernous nightclub society environment that has long informed his clothes.This compilation, Lee said backstage, was freely inspired by the ripening accounts in the Oriental cult film All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the concept of individual alteration, and also seemed to embrace the tensions of being young– sensation bulletproof, developing a sense of nostalgia, the tension of ability– through creating a selection that projected some special awkwardness.If none of this sounds particularly alluring or even like an outfit mature for an excellent celebration, it’s because Lee’s main preoccupation isn’t magnetism, and also neither is the nightclub.
Some points happen typically, however, so his plan had plenty of cheeky as well as unquestionably trendy menswear designs: small pants, one-shoulder draped bests or furnished container tops, shiny shirting, as well as a set of glossy briefs that a fellow attendee turned up component a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unfamiliar and cool button-downs were one of the most powerful: The quick sleeves on one were actually outfit tee belts, while yet another’s were knitted to longer doors to develop whole sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee’s return to the runway in Shanghai. “This season has actually been actually challenging yet it really felt relevant to carry out a show since I desire to really feel honored,” he said.
Lee had actually been actually showing his selection via lookbook and also in display rooms. While it is actually excellent to be able to see his work up close– do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he is actually pretty the skilled technical developer– these outfits are actually all best experienced in context. The after-party that observed the series took place in the same place: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier as well as the style crowd event outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long as well as memorable season, it was an opportunity to attest to Lee’s label of cosmopolitan, rave-ready sexuality in full throttle..