." This is the only display in Shanghai where you'll observe some trendy boys," joked a buddy at Ximon Lee, the final runway presentation at the Shanghai collections. "You'll observe beautiful females as well as timeless Chinese Tai Tai's [an idiomatic condition for a well-off, married female], those type of versions, but simply here you'll get hot males!" The site for Lee's humid procession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a brand new site previously this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional that launched his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons. He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward and also was actually the very first menswear designer to win the H&M Design Award that same year. Lee has a decent share of well-earned clout, yet has for years relocated pretty subtly, shrouded due to the cavernous club culture environment that has actually long updated his clothes.This compilation, Lee claimed backstage, was actually loosely inspired due to the maturing accounts in the Eastern cult movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the concept of individual alteration, and also showed up to embrace the pressures of being youthful-- emotion unyielding, building a sense of nostalgia, the tension of possibility-- through constructing a collection that predicted some endearing awkwardness.If none of this particular seems particularly alluring or even like a closet ready for a really good party, it's given that Lee's key fixation isn't attraction, and also neither is actually the club. Some things come normally, though, so his plan had lots of cheeky and also indisputably cool menswear designs: small pants, one-shoulder covered leadings or even adorned storage tank bests, shiny shirting, and also a pair of satiny briefs that a fellow attendee reported function a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unique as well as cool button-downs were one of the most convincing: The quick sleeves on one were actually gown tee shirt belts, while an additional's were actually weaved to longer panels to create whole sleeves.This show marked Lee's come back to the path in Shanghai. "This season has actually been actually challenging however it really felt significant to accomplish a series since I would like to really feel honored," he said. Lee had been actually showing his selection using lookbook as well as in showrooms. While it's really good to become able to observe his work up close-- do not let the barely-thereness of Lee's garments fool you, he is actually quite the deft specialized professional-- these clothing are actually all absolute best experienced in situation. The after-party that observed the series occurred in the exact same site: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift path had been earlier and the fashion group party outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and also exciting period, it was actually a possibility to testify to to Lee's brand name of metropolitan, rave-ready provocativeness in full throttle..