Yohji Yamamoto

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Name: Julia What do you do? I'm the founder and CEO of NMRKT. What was the last thing you bought? Actually this Opening Ceremony x Adidas sports bra. What are you currently obsessed with? Assembly New York's entire collection. Their store has been an obsession for a long time, but since fall I haven't been able to keep my eyes and hands off their new line, to the point where the sales associates anticipate me coming in weekly. Who is your celebrity crush?

The Met Ball is like the Oscars for the fashion industry: all the best people in all the best dresses. This year's theme, punk, presents an interesting conundrum: will people go all out, liberty spikes and Givenchy nose rings and all, or just throw some studs on a Chanel suit and call it pseudo-punk? We're hoping for the former, and so in the spirit of going the distance, we've picked out our favorite punk fashions and paired them with Met Ball regulars like Anna Wintour and Julianne Moore and some fantasy guests (Bjork, anyone?). Click through to see the looks we want to see on the red carpet, and let us know what you're hoping for in the comments.

In an exclusive interview with WWD last Friday, Yohji Yamamoto said that only about "2 or 3 percent" of the audience who watch his shows really understand and appreciate the level of work he puts into each collection. “Young people, be careful. Beautiful things are disappearing every day,” he said as he counseled them to resist adopting fast-fashion looks so that they might foster their own innate sense of style. The danger, Yamamoto seemed to suggest, lies in not understanding nuance in fashion in the face of "too much information by media, especially [through computers]."

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Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt. PARIS--Looking at the set for Yohji Yamamoto's fall 2012 show, a rectangle of red steel

Long Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt. PARIS--There’s something about the integrity of Mr. Yohji Yamamoto’s work that resists succumbing to seasonal trends. You have to respect designer who follows his own vision despite the warp speed pace of fashion changing around him. It's more often the case that the fashion world eventually catches up with him--you can see his men's pantsuits in many of the women’s collections shown here in the last two seasons. In a small showroom on the Rue Saint Martin, Mr. Yamamoto, as usual, used a range of real people and fashion models--young and old, large and slim sizes --a reflection of the real people who purchase his clothes. When the show ended, guests exiting one way and models another--some of the dressed-to-the-nines editors (blood red elbow gloves on one and a rabbit hat and blue Mongolian fur on another) seemed more done up then the models. And maybe that has always been the point for the designer who pushes boundaries only with how he cuts the clothes, often using the same fabrics season after season:

There's something strange happening on the runway at the men's Spring 2009 shows, and we're kind of liking it: First, Vivienne Westwood sent out a rat