." This is actually the only display in Shanghai where you'll view some in demand children," poked fun a close friend at Ximon Lee, the final runway discussion at the Shanghai collections. "You'll see lovely females and timeless Chinese Tai Tai's [a colloquial condition for a well-off, married gal], those kinds of styles, but just listed below you'll fume guys!" The location for Lee's steamy procession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a new site earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer that released his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons. He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward and was the first menswear developer to succeed the H&M Layout Honor that exact same year. Lee possesses a fair allotment of well-earned influence, however eats years relocated fairly subtly, shrouded due to the spacious club culture setting that has actually long updated his clothes.This collection, Lee said backstage, was loosely motivated by the ripening accounts in the Oriental creed film All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the concept of individual metamorphosis, as well as showed up to take advantage of the stress of being actually youthful-- sensation invincible, cultivating a sense of nostalgia, the tension of capacity-- by constructing a collection that projected some endearing awkwardness.If none of this seems particularly attractive or like a wardrobe ripe for a great event, it's since Lee's primary obsession isn't allure, and also neither is the club. Some factors happen naturally, however, so his proposition was full of audacious as well as undeniably cool menswear types: micro shorts, one-shoulder draped bests or even adorned container bests, lustrous shirting, and a set of satiny underwear that a fellow attendee turned up component an integrated jockstrap. A run of novel and cool button-downs were actually one of the most engaging: The short sleeves on one were really dress tshirt belts, while another's were knitted to longer doors to create uncut sleeves.This show noticeable Lee's return to the runway in Shanghai. "This time has actually been challenging yet it really felt meaningful to do a show considering that I desire to experience proud," he mentioned. Lee had been actually presenting his compilation using lookbook as well as in display rooms. While it's really good to be able to view his work up close-- don't allow the barely-thereness of Lee's garments fool you, he is actually pretty the ingenious specialized designer-- these clothing are all greatest experienced in context. The after-party that complied with the series took place in the exact same site: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift runway had been earlier and also the manner group celebration outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long and exciting season, it was a possibility to testify to to Lee's label of city, rave-ready eroticism in full throttle..