Fashionista contributor Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.

PARIS–Very often, we expect seasoned conceptual and intellectual fashion designers to deliver puzzling shows. Ones bring us to exhilaration about the possibilities of fashion as art and as an influencer in broader culture.

Early on Saturday morning, we experienced such a show. With a break of sun from the previous evening’s downpour, a crowd gathered at the coffee shop adjacent to the Dries van Noten store for a first dose of coffee and croissant, before proceeding next door to the Junya Watanabe show in the small salon of the Beaux-Arts.

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