Ximon Lee: Design From The Angle Of People Around

Stockholm, Sweden - last Tuesday, the fast fashion brand H&M announced the winner of the H&M Design Award (H&M Design Award) in 2015: Ximon Lee, the Chinese designer who graduated from the Parsons Design School of New York famous fashion design school last year (Parsons The New School New), after three rounds of screening, finally broke through from the top eight, winning the honor of the first men's wear designer in the history of the competition.

The award for the H&M design award includes the cash on display in the fashion week of Stockholm, the cash prize of 50 thousand euros and the display of its three entries in the H&M Global Select store in the autumn of 2015.

The award was founded in 2012, and H&M accepted entries from 37 fashion design graduates worldwide.

At present, according to official website data, the award has not been opened to any Chinese University.

Although the award is not long established, the H&M design award has been widely recognized in the fashion industry in view of the tremendous influence of H&M and the worldwide retail network.

The market has different responses to the first three award-winning designers.

2013 award winning Korean designer Minju Kim and

On the eve of the launch of the cooperation series, Susie Bubble and other high fashion fashion bloggers have created a lot of topics on the Internet.

Many styles were sold out on that day.

This season, she will show in the Fashion Scout's "tomorrow star" project during the London Fashion week.

However, last year's Eddy Anemian cooperation series was in a dilemma.

Christmas discount is coming to an end, and her works are still on discount shelves.

"It's very exciting. I didn't expect it either."

This year, Ximon Lee, who is just 24 years old, now recalls the situation at the time of winning the prize. "It's still hard to calm down:" after all, just graduated, winning this award has helped me a lot.

If it's a full-time job, it's not practical to take part in the competition.

When I knew I won the game, I left everything behind.

Before he joined the competition, he worked in the men's clothing design department of Calvin Klein.

His father came from Daegu, South Korea.

When they invaded Korea, they moved their families to China.

"I was born in Heilongjiang and lived in many places."

He told BoF: that "the earliest place is Manchuria, the Russian border, thirty or forty degrees below zero in winter."

Then I moved to Beijing, and I went to school in Beijing.

Then he moved to Shanghai for a year.

Before going abroad, I was in Hongkong (high school).

His childhood had a profound influence on his series.

During the exchange between Parsons and central London Saint Martin, he found the source of design.

"I started reading some books and related to myself.

I am very touched by myself. I read the documentary (Documentary), including the The Children of Leningradsky, which is about the time of the former Soviet Union (The).

Its whole environment touched my memory when I was young.

There are many buildings in the north of China that are affected by the former Soviet Union.

"I had an impulse to see it," he continued. "It took several weeks to travel to Moscow.

(I) went to some places in Moscow with a studio who was randomly known on the Internet.

Then go and shoot some grass, trees, and then come back to see pictures of children's clothes.

"In the documentary, they wear.

It's all about survival. It's not styling. They don't want to dress like this.

You see the sweater they wear, add their own patchwork (patch), squash some Coca-Cola cans and hang them in the waist, these are very random (casual) hanging ornaments, and I put them all in the series.

The broad outlines and multi-storey overlay are his characteristics.

"After I returned to the United States, I bought many clothes of Salvation Army.

Instead of remaking them, they turn some old clothes into new ones.

And then directly from layer to a part of the body.

All layer became sandwich (sandwich), making it very thick. "

Ximon Lee explains: "of course it is also very awkward (strange), there is a kind of feeling that your mother would wear you a lot of clothes when you were little.

It's not that I don't want to wear it, but it's the feeling of hugging. "

Last December 2nd, in London's top eight judges, Ximon Lee was impressed by the design of childhood memories and personal feelings to the judges of the H&M design award.

"Lily Allen likes my work very much. I often comment on my work.

Then she will help me analyze this award and compare it with other competitors.

"Tommy Ton likes to imagine what this dress looks like from his perspective," he recalled with great interest.

And Marc by Marc Jacobs's Luella Bartley thinks it's interesting to wear this dress for girls.