." This is the only display in Shanghai where you'll view some hot children," poked fun a close friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway discussion at the Shanghai selections. "You'll see appealing women and also timeless Mandarin Tai Tai's [an idiomatic term for a rich, married girl], those sort of versions, but simply below you'll fume males!" The venue for Lee's humid train of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a brand new location 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 studies at Parsons. He was shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Prize and also was the 1st menswear designer to win the H&M Style Honor that exact same year. Lee has a reasonable reveal of well-earned clout, yet eats years moved relatively discreetly, shrouded by the roomy club lifestyle setting that has actually long educated his clothes.This assortment, Lee claimed backstage, was loosely encouraged due to the maturing accounts in the Eastern creed movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the concept of personal transformation, as well as showed up to embrace the stress of being youthful-- sensation bulletproof, establishing a feeling of nostalgia, the tension of ability-- through constructing an assortment that projected some endearing awkwardness.If none of this seems particularly hot or like a closet ready for a great gathering, it is actually given that Lee's main obsession isn't magnetism, as well as neither is the nightclub. Some points come typically, though, so his proposal contained cheeky and also without a doubt amazing menswear designs: small shorts, one-shoulder covered bests or furnished container leadings, glossy shirting, and also a set of satiny underpants that a fellow guest reported function an integrated jockstrap. A run of unfamiliar and also fashionable button-downs were actually the absolute most convincing: The quick sleeves on one were in fact gown tee cuffs, while an additional's were knitted to longer boards to create unabridged sleeves.This reveal noticeable Lee's come back to the runway in Shanghai. "This time has actually been actually testing however it felt relevant to perform a program considering that I desire to feel proud," he claimed. Lee had been presenting his collection by means of lookbook as well as in display rooms. While it is actually excellent to become able to view his work up close-- don't permit the barely-thereness of Lee's garments mislead you, he's rather the ingenious technical professional-- these garments are actually all greatest experienced in context. The after-party that followed the series took place in the same location: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier as well as the style crowd party outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long and also memorable time, it was an odds to testify to Lee's brand of metropolitan, rave-ready sexiness completely throttle..