." This is the only show in Shanghai where you'll find some trendy young boys," poked fun a friend at Ximon Lee, the last path presentation at the Shanghai collections. "You'll observe lovely ladies and also traditional Mandarin Tai Tai's [a colloquial phrase for a well-off, wedded gal], those type of styles, but just listed here you'll fume guys!" The location for Lee's steamy train of smoke-shows was actually the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which resumed at a brand new area earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear professional that introduced his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons. He was actually shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Reward as well as was actually the 1st menswear designer to gain the H&M Design Award that very same year. Lee has a decent portion of well-earned authority, yet eats years moved pretty discreetly, shrouded by the spacious nightclub lifestyle setting that has actually long updated his clothes.This selection, Lee stated backstage, was actually freely encouraged due to the maturing stories in the Eastern creed movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the tip of private transformation, and also appeared to embrace the strains of being young-- emotion unyielding, building a sense of nostalgia, the stress of potential-- by creating a compilation that projected some charming awkwardness.If none of the appears particularly sexy or even like a closet ready for an excellent celebration, it is actually given that Lee's major fixation isn't allure, and neither is actually the nightclub. Some things happen normally, though, so his proposition had plenty of audacious and also unquestionably awesome menswear types: small pants, one-shoulder draped tops or embellished storage tank bests, lustrous shirting, as well as a pair of satiny shorts that a fellow attendee turned up attribute a built-in jockstrap. An operate of unique as well as fashionable button-downs were actually one of the most compelling: The brief sleeves on one were actually outfit t-shirt cuffs, while one more's were knitted to longer doors to generate whole sleeves.This reveal significant Lee's go back to the path in Shanghai. "This time has actually been testing yet it experienced relevant to accomplish a series considering that I wish to feel honored," he claimed. Lee had actually been actually revealing his selection using lookbook and in showrooms. While it's good to be able to see his develop close-- don't let the barely-thereness of Lee's garments trick you, he is actually quite the quick specialized designer-- these garments are all greatest experienced in circumstance. The after-party that followed the show took place in the very same place: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in location where the makeshift runway had been earlier and also the fashion trend crowd event outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a lengthy and also eventful time, it was a possibility to demonstrate to Lee's brand name of metropolitan, rave-ready sexuality completely throttle..