This year, Zen Lee introduced Mainewear for his running label. “(Two collections) certainly informed each other. There are many external ideas that have moved forward from men – I would say that the collection of men is an experiment for women, like we did for women to look better for women. “She said with laughter in her Paris Studio. The most obvious example of the crossover was a terrible windbreaker style with sporty to-tone vest and a built-in Bolero. He also showed Voluminus shorts for her men’swear collection, which became a simple A-line knee-length skirt on the waist, which was a complete swimming around the body like a Hoop skirt. Used to start life as a flat class, Lee explained that he reduces the shiring on the skirt and holds a very long panel of cloth in front of him.
Flatness is a recurring subject in Lee’s work, but the results are not actually flat or two dimensions in any way – even when a dress or skirt looks to stand in or around the body directly in or around the body, the body is always part of the equation. The pattern of a tank top tank with a flat rafal was obtained by “copy/pasting” and then let it sort to sort … hung there. Another tank had a flat panel at the front and at the back side, almost like an apron, but the way the back piece fell, it seemed to caress the shoulders like an elegant theft. However, elegance was not accidental. Lee Crystobal was also thinking of Balensiaga, in particular, her envelope dress. “Generally on women’s clothes we use darts to be more fit for the body curve, but I only take it as a starting point, and then play with a flat surface or a different texture of the body,” he explained. Two sleeveless T-shirts, a red and a charcoal, were leveled on each other, gathered on one side with a series of “darts on the outset”, which created a “soft romantic volume”.
Lee’s clothing has a built-in simplicity, where always more than meeting the eye: one appears that the straight single-breadd coat was almost completely open in the back, with a large Velcro section on the back side to create a quantity like a stir. And while minimal, border-practical fabrics can often decrease a sense of fickleness, here it was abundant. Look at two-tone impure fur stole that were at the top of many looks, or a dress whose back panel was a real-long sleeve T-shirt, so you could also tie sleeves around the waist. “Once I went to a girlfriend’s apartment and she was just accumulating things on the couch – a very good cocktail dress, but then the top was also a sweatshirt,” Lee said. It was a strange garment, but it was also very good.
