." This is actually the only show in Shanghai where you'll find some trendy young boys," poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the final path presentation at the Shanghai compilations. "You'll see attractive gals and traditional Chinese Tai Tai's [an idiomatic term for a prosperous, wedded gal], those sort of designs, yet simply here you'll get hot men!" The location for Lee's humid train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a brand-new location earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer that released his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons. He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Prize as well as was actually the 1st menswear designer to succeed the H&M Design Honor that same year. Lee has a reasonable allotment of well-earned influence, but has for years moved pretty discreetly, shrouded by the cavernous nightclub culture atmosphere that has long educated his clothes.This compilation, Lee claimed backstage, was freely encouraged due to the ripening accounts in the Eastern creed film All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the suggestion of individual metamorphosis, and also seemed to embrace the strains of being actually young-- emotion unyielding, developing a feeling of fond memories, the stress of capacity-- through creating a selection that projected some special awkwardness.If none of this particular sounds especially alluring or like a closet mature for a great celebration, it's due to the fact that Lee's major preoccupation isn't sex appeal, and also neither is actually the nightclub. Some things happen naturally, however, so his proposal had lots of saucy and indisputably great menswear types: micro shorts, one-shoulder covered tops or embellished container tops, shiny shirting, as well as a set of glossy underwear that a fellow attendee turned up function an integrated jockstrap. A run of novel and cool button-downs were actually the absolute most engaging: The short sleeves on one were in fact dress shirt cuffs, while an additional's were weaved to longer boards to produce uncut sleeves.This present marked Lee's return to the runway in Shanghai. "This time has actually been testing but it felt relevant to do a show because I would like to really feel glad," he mentioned. Lee had been showing his compilation via lookbook and also in showrooms. While it is actually excellent to be capable to observe his work up close-- do not let the barely-thereness of Lee's garments mislead you, he is actually pretty the nimble technological professional-- these outfits are actually all greatest experienced in context. The after-party that observed the series took place in the exact same area: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier and also the style crowd celebration outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long and eventful time, it was actually a chance to testify to Lee's label of cosmopolitan, rave-ready sexiness in full throttle..