Here, a yearning for the certainties/uncertainties of an early 20th-century avant-garde past seemed apparent—as it has for a fair few designers this season. In Watanabe's case, there seemed to be an echoing of Robert and Sonia Delaunay's Orphism—particularly Sonia's performance-based pieces and a synthesis of her and her circle's fashion work that emerged after the Great War—Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russe in its various influential forms, and Hugo Ball's Dadaist Cabaret Voltaire that began in 1916. In short, if you were looking to Watanabe for a nice pair of patchwork jeans for Spring, forget it.