." This is the only show in Shanghai where you'll find some hot boys," poked fun a buddy at Ximon Lee, the final runway discussion at the Shanghai selections. "You'll find beautiful females as well as classic Chinese Tai Tai's [a colloquial term for an affluent, wedded female], those sort of versions, however only right here you'll get hot men!" The site for Lee's humid procession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which resumed at a brand-new area earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear designer who released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after researches at Parsons. He was nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward as well as was the first menswear designer to gain the H&M Layout Honor that same year. Lee has a fair share of well-earned standing, but eats years moved pretty discreetly, shrouded by the spacious club society setting that has long notified his clothes.This selection, Lee mentioned backstage, was freely motivated by the maturing accounts in the Japanese creed movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He pondered on the suggestion of personal metamorphosis, as well as appeared to embrace the stress of being actually younger-- emotion bulletproof, building a feeling of nostalgia, the pressure of possibility-- through creating a compilation that forecasted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of this seems particularly gorgeous or like an outfit mature for a good celebration, it's because Lee's primary preoccupation isn't attraction, and also neither is the nightclub. Some things come normally, though, so his proposition contained audacious as well as without a doubt great menswear styles: small pants, one-shoulder covered bests or even adorned tank leadings, lustrous shirting, and also a set of satiny briefs that a fellow guest reported feature an integrated jockstrap. A run of novel and fashionable button-downs were the most engaging: The quick sleeves on one were in fact outfit shirt belts, while another's were actually knitted to longer doors to generate uncut sleeves.This reveal significant Lee's come back to the runway in Shanghai. "This time has been testing however it felt relevant to accomplish a program because I wish to experience glad," he stated. Lee had been actually revealing his compilation via lookbook and in display rooms. While it is actually really good to be able to find his work up close-- don't allow the barely-thereness of Lee's garments trick you, he is actually fairly the quick specialized professional-- these garments are all best experienced in context. The after-party that observed the program happened in the very same site: Between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift path had actually been earlier and also the fashion group party outside to catch up at the tail-end of a long and also eventful period, it was an opportunity to testify to Lee's brand name of metropolitan, rave-ready eroticism in full throttle..