On 27th of January 2015, Ximon Lee, a graduate from the
Parsons the New School of Design was named the 2015 H&M Design Award winner.
Mr. Lee had beaten 400 applicants to win the coveted title. He was also the
first-ever menswear designer to win the award.
Yesterday, the designer presented his FW 15 menswear collection at the
ongoing New York Fashion Week, under the umbrella of VFiles, an initiative that
supports emerging designers. Lee’s collection was inspired by a documentary
titled “The Children of
Leningradsky”, which was about the orphaned
street kids of Moscow who banded together post- Soviet collapse. Unconventional
and architectural, the pieces from the collections were severe and oversized.
He derived the architectural shape of the garments from the soviet block
building, while the layering and the awkwardly fitted clothes were inspired from
the documentary, reminiscent of the dense layers in the lives of the street
kids, their survival and their experiences. Under extreme conditions the kids
wore whatever they could find and that was depicted by the designer in the form
deconstruction and textures in the collection.
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