." This is actually the only show in Shanghai where you'll find some trendy kids," poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the final runway presentation at the Shanghai assortments. "You'll see lovely gals and timeless Mandarin Tai Tai's [an idiomatic term for a rich, wedded female], those sort of versions, yet merely below you'll get hot guys!" The location for Lee's humid succession of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand new area earlier this year. For the unaware, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who launched his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons. He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize as well as was the initial menswear professional to gain the H&M Concept Award that exact same year. Lee possesses a fair reveal of well-earned authority, but eats years relocated fairly subtly, shrouded due to the cavernous nightclub lifestyle setting that has actually long informed his clothes.This collection, Lee claimed backstage, was loosely influenced by the ripening accounts in the Eastern cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the tip of personal transformation, and also appeared to welcome the stress of being youthful-- emotion unyielding, building a sense of fond memories, the stress of ability-- through constructing a compilation that predicted some endearing awkwardness.If none of this seems particularly seductive or even like a closet ready for a great event, it is actually given that Lee's main fixation isn't sex appeal, and neither is actually the nightclub. Some factors happen naturally, though, so his proposal had lots of audacious and indisputably cool menswear styles: small pants, one-shoulder covered tops or even embellished storage tank tops, lustrous shirting, and also a pair of glossy underpants that a fellow participant showed up attribute a built-in jockstrap. A run of unique as well as fashionable button-downs were actually the most compelling: The short sleeves on one were really gown tshirt belts, while one more's were knitted to longer panels to produce unabridged sleeves.This present noticeable Lee's return to the runway in Shanghai. "This season has been actually challenging however it felt purposeful to accomplish a program since I wish to feel pleased," he stated. Lee had been revealing his compilation through lookbook and also in showrooms. While it is actually great to become able to find his work up close-- don't allow the barely-thereness of Lee's garments fool you, he is actually very the quick specialized designer-- these garments are actually all finest experienced in context. The after-party that adhered to the show occurred in the exact same place: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift path had actually been earlier and the style crowd gathering outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and memorable period, it was actually a possibility to testify to Lee's company of cosmopolitan, rave-ready sexiness in full throttle..