." This is the only show in Shanghai where you'll observe some trendy children," joked a good friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway presentation at the Shanghai assortments. "You'll see appealing women and traditional Mandarin Tai Tai's [a colloquial condition for a prosperous, wedded girl], those sort of designs, however just below you'll fume guys!" The site for Lee's balmy train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai nightclub Heim, which reopened at a brand-new location earlier this year. For the uninitiated, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional that released his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons. He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Reward and also was actually the initial menswear developer to gain the H&M Design Award that exact same year. Lee possesses a decent reveal of well-earned clout, however has for years moved fairly subtly, shrouded due to the cavernous nightclub lifestyle ambience that has long notified his clothes.This assortment, Lee stated backstage, was actually loosely influenced due to the ripening tales in the Japanese creed movie Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the suggestion of private transformation, and also appeared to embrace the tensions of being younger-- feeling invincible, developing a sense of nostalgia, the stress of capacity-- through building a selection that projected some endearing awkwardness.If none of the appears specifically seductive or even like an outfit enriched for a really good event, it is actually since Lee's main preoccupation isn't allure, as well as neither is the nightclub. Some points come normally, however, so his proposition contained saucy and also indisputably amazing menswear styles: small pants, one-shoulder draped bests or furnished container bests, glossy shirting, and also a pair of satiny underpants that a fellow attendee showed up function an integrated jockstrap. A run of unfamiliar and fashionable button-downs were actually the most convincing: The brief sleeves on one were really outfit tee belts, while one more's were weaved to longer doors to produce whole sleeves.This reveal marked Lee's return to the runway in Shanghai. "This period has been testing however it experienced purposeful to carry out a series since I want to really feel happy," he pointed out. Lee had actually been presenting his assortment via lookbook and in showrooms. While it is actually great to become capable to see his work up close-- do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee's garments fool you, he's pretty the ingenious technical designer-- these garments are all ideal experienced in circumstance. The after-party that complied with the program took place in the very same place: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift path had been actually earlier and also the manner group party outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long as well as exciting season, it was actually an odds to demonstrate to Lee's brand name of modern, rave-ready provocativeness completely throttle..