.” This is actually the only show in Shanghai where you’ll find some trendy young boys,” joked a good friend at Ximon Lee, the final path presentation at the Shanghai assortments. “You’ll see attractive girls and timeless Chinese Tai Tai’s [an idiomatic phrase for a well-off, married woman], those sort of models, but merely listed here you’ll fume guys!” The place for Lee’s balmy train of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a new site previously this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer who released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons.
He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Award and was the first menswear professional to gain the H&M Concept Award that exact same year. Lee possesses a reasonable allotment of well-earned influence, however eats years relocated reasonably subtly, shrouded due to the roomy club lifestyle ambience that has actually long notified his clothes.This collection, Lee pointed out backstage, was freely encouraged by the maturing tales in the Eastern creed film Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the concept of individual metamorphosis, as well as showed up to take advantage of the tensions of being youthful– sensation unyielding, building a sense of fond memories, the pressure of potential– by designing a compilation that projected some charming awkwardness.If none of this particular seems especially sexy or like a wardrobe enriched for a great party, it is actually given that Lee’s major preoccupation isn’t attraction, and also neither is the club.
Some traits come normally, however, so his proposal had plenty of cheeky and also undoubtedly amazing menswear styles: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped leadings or ornamented storage tank bests, shiny shirting, and a pair of satiny boxers that a fellow guest reported attribute a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unfamiliar and also fashionable button-downs were actually one of the most convincing: The quick sleeves on one were really gown tee belts, while yet another’s were actually knitted to longer boards to produce full-length sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee’s return to the runway in Shanghai. “This period has actually been actually testing yet it really felt purposeful to carry out a series considering that I intend to really feel glad,” he claimed.
Lee had been actually showing his assortment by means of lookbook as well as in showrooms. While it’s great to become able to see his develop close– do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee’s garments fool you, he’s rather the deft technical professional– these outfits are actually all absolute best experienced in context. The after-party that adhered to the show occurred in the exact same site: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift path had been actually earlier and the manner group gathering outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long and also eventful time, it was actually an opportunity to testify to to Lee’s label of municipal, rave-ready sexuality in full throttle..