.” This is the only display in Shanghai where you’ll find some trendy boys,” poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the final runway presentation at the Shanghai collections. “You’ll view lovely ladies as well as classic Mandarin Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic phrase for an affluent, married lady], those type of styles, yet just right here you’ll get hot men!” The location for Lee’s balmy procession of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which resumed at a brand-new location previously this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who introduced his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Award as well as was actually the first menswear designer to win the H&M Design Award that same year. Lee possesses a decent allotment of well-earned influence, however has for years relocated pretty discreetly, shrouded due to the cavernous club society ambience that has actually long informed his clothes.This assortment, Lee stated backstage, was freely influenced due to the maturing tales in the Eastern cult film Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the tip of individual transformation, and showed up to welcome the tensions of being actually youthful– sensation invincible, building a sense of fond memories, the pressure of ability– through designing a selection that forecasted some special awkwardness.If none of this particular appears especially hot or like an outfit ready for a really good celebration, it is actually given that Lee’s primary obsession isn’t sexual magnetism, and neither is the club.
Some traits happen naturally, however, so his plan teemed with cheeky as well as without a doubt great menswear styles: micro pants, one-shoulder draped tops or even adorned tank leadings, lustrous shirting, as well as a set of glossy underwear that a fellow participant showed up feature an integrated jockstrap. An operate of novel and fashionable button-downs were one of the most convincing: The quick sleeves on one were actually gown t-shirt belts, while another’s were knitted to longer doors to make full-length sleeves.This reveal significant Lee’s go back to the runway in Shanghai. “This time has actually been challenging but it experienced relevant to carry out a series considering that I want to experience glad,” he said.
Lee had actually been presenting his selection via lookbook and also in showrooms. While it is actually excellent to be capable to observe his work up close– do not let the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments trick you, he’s fairly the deft technical developer– these outfits are all best experienced in situation. The after-party that complied with the series took place in the exact same place: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier and the fashion crowd party outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy as well as memorable time, it was a possibility to demonstrate to Lee’s company of urbane, rave-ready sexiness in full throttle..