Like the mathematician John Nash, Watanabe seems almost obsessive about searching for hidden patterns. Each collection proposes the exhaustive solving of another problem, to the point that you almost wonder whether the designer might drive himself mad with such concentration on it. The thing is, it never gets tiresome. The obsessiveness begets the intrigue of much of this clothing and ultimately the satisfaction and strange desirability of it; neither does it mean there is no proclivity to prettiness. Today this collection exerted the same, strange pull to not only admire but to own.