." This is the only show in Shanghai where you'll find some hot kids," poked fun a close friend at Ximon Lee, the last runway discussion at the Shanghai collections. "You'll observe lovely females and also timeless Mandarin Tai Tai's [a colloquial phrase for a wealthy, married female], those kinds of styles, yet merely listed below you'll get hot guys!" The venue for Lee's humid succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a brand-new area earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is actually a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer who released his label in Brooklyn in 2014 after research studies at Parsons. He was shortlisted for the 2015 LVMH Award as well as was actually the initial menswear professional to gain the H&M Design Honor that same year. Lee possesses a reasonable share of well-earned authority, yet eats years relocated pretty discreetly, shrouded by the cavernous nightclub culture atmosphere that has actually long informed his clothes.This collection, Lee claimed backstage, was loosely encouraged due to the coming of age tales in the Japanese creed film Everything about Lily Chou Chou. He ruminated on the tip of personal alteration, and showed up to welcome the pressures of being actually young-- emotion unyielding, establishing a sense of nostalgia, the pressure of possibility-- through building a collection that predicted some capitivating awkwardness.If none of this particular appears especially attractive or like a closet mature for a good party, it is actually because Lee's major fixation isn't allure, and also neither is actually the club. Some points come normally, though, so his plan had plenty of saucy as well as indisputably cool menswear designs: mini shorts, one-shoulder covered tops or furnished tank bests, glossy shirting, and also a pair of glossy underpants that a fellow guest showed up component a built-in jockstrap. A run of unique as well as funky button-downs were the most convincing: The brief sleeves on one were actually outfit tee shirt cuffs, while an additional's were weaved to longer panels to develop unabridged sleeves.This reveal significant Lee's come back to the runway in Shanghai. "This time has been actually challenging however it felt significant to do a program considering that I want to feel proud," he said. Lee had been presenting his assortment via lookbook and in showrooms. While it's great to be able to see his work up close-- don't allow the barely-thereness of Lee's garments mislead you, he is actually pretty the deft specialized professional-- these outfits are all greatest experienced in circumstance. The after-party that complied with the series happened in the exact same place: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in place where the makeshift runway had actually been earlier and the fashion group event outside to catch up at the tail-end of a lengthy and exciting time, it was actually a chance to testify to Lee's company of city, rave-ready provocativeness completely throttle..