." This is the only receive Shanghai where you'll find some hot children," joked a friend at Ximon Lee, the final runway presentation at the Shanghai collections. "You'll view lovely women as well as timeless Chinese Tai Tai's [a colloquial term for a prosperous, married girl], those type of versions, but merely listed below you'll fume guys!" The site for Lee's steamy succession of smoke-shows was the smokier Shanghai club Heim, which reopened at a brand new site earlier this year. For the inexperienced, Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Berlin-based menswear developer that introduced his tag in Brooklyn in 2014 after studies at Parsons. He was actually nominated for the 2015 LVMH Award and also was actually the 1st menswear designer to win the H&M Layout Award that exact same year. Lee has a decent reveal of well-earned authority, yet has for years moved relatively discreetly, shrouded by the roomy nightclub lifestyle environment that has long updated his clothes.This collection, Lee claimed backstage, was loosely motivated by the maturing tales in the Japanese creed movie All About Lily Chou Chou. He reflected on the tip of individual metamorphosis, as well as showed up to accept the pressures of being younger-- feeling invincible, creating a sense of fond memories, the tension of capacity-- by creating a compilation that projected some charming awkwardness.If none of this particular seems especially sexy or like an outfit ripe for a really good celebration, it is actually since Lee's key obsession isn't allure, as well as neither is the club. Some points happen naturally, though, so his plan had plenty of saucy as well as undeniably awesome menswear designs: small shorts, one-shoulder draped bests or even adorned container bests, lustrous shirting, and a set of satiny shorts that a fellow attendee turned up function an integrated jockstrap. An operate of novel and also funky button-downs were actually the best powerful: The brief sleeves on one were really outfit tee shirt cuffs, while one more's were knitted to longer panels to produce uncut sleeves.This reveal marked Lee's return to the runway in Shanghai. "This period has been challenging yet it really felt relevant to perform a show since I wish to experience honored," he pointed out. Lee had been revealing his collection using lookbook and in showrooms. While it is actually great to be capable to observe his work up close-- do not permit the barely-thereness of Lee's garments mislead you, he is actually pretty the deft specialized designer-- these clothing are all finest experienced in situation. The after-party that complied with the program happened in the exact same site: In between the techno faithfuls stomping in position where the makeshift runway had actually been actually earlier and also the fashion trend crowd gathering outside to mesmerize at the tail-end of a long as well as exciting time, it was an odds to testify to Lee's label of urban, rave-ready eroticism completely throttle..