." This is actually the only display in Shanghai where you'll see some popular children," poked fun a good friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway presentation at the Shanghai assortments. "You'll find pretty women and also timeless Mandarin Tai Tai's [a colloquial term for a well-off, married woman], those kinds of styles, however simply below you'll get hot males!" The site for Lee's balmy procession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a new location previously this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional who introduced his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons. He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Award and also was the initial menswear designer to win the H&M Design Honor that same year. Lee has a decent portion of well-earned standing, yet has for years moved relatively subtly, shrouded by the spacious club lifestyle environment that has long educated his clothes.This collection, Lee stated backstage, was actually freely motivated due to the maturing stories in the Eastern cult movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the idea of individual transformation, as well as seemed to take advantage of the tensions of being actually younger-- sensation invincible, developing a sense of fond memories, the tension of capacity-- by designing a collection that forecasted some charming awkwardness.If none of the appears particularly seductive or like a wardrobe ripe for a great gathering, it's because Lee's key obsession isn't attraction, and neither is the club. Some factors come naturally, however, so his proposal teemed with cheeky and unquestionably trendy menswear styles: mini shorts, one-shoulder draped leadings or adorned tank leadings, glossy shirting, as well as a pair of glossy undershorts that a fellow participant turned up component an integrated jockstrap. A run of unfamiliar and also funky button-downs were actually one of the most powerful: The brief sleeves on one were really outfit t shirt belts, while an additional's were weaved to longer doors to make uncut sleeves.This show noticeable Lee's return to the runway in Shanghai. "This time has been challenging yet it really felt significant to carry out a program because I intend to feel honored," he said. Lee had actually been actually revealing his selection via lookbook as well as in display rooms. While it is actually good to be able to find his develop close-- don't permit the barely-thereness of Lee's garments mislead you, he's pretty the ingenious specialized professional-- these clothes are actually all finest experienced in circumstance. 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 and also the fashion trend crowd event outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long as well as memorable time, it was actually an opportunity to attest to Lee's label of municipal, rave-ready provocativeness completely throttle..