He's modeled for Yohji Yamamoto, Prada and Comme des Garcons and has directed short films for his close friend and fashion designer Bella Freud.

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Wearing collarless Issey Miyake shirts, Girbaud slacks and blazers by his friend Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, Watson would never be mistaken for a banker.

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When they first hung their shingle in 1992 (producing record sleeves and soon undertaking the branding of Yohji Yamamoto's just-debuted Y's line), graphic design was an almost arbitrary choice.

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With the notable exception of Yohji Yamamoto and Y-3 (his decadelong collaboration with Adidas, which is much more fashion than fitness), fashion designers and sports brands make awkward bedfellows.

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Feeling glum and cold, I swathe myself in my vast, vintage Yohji Yamamoto coat, (which would not have looked out of place on a naval destroyer crossing the Atlantic in 1943), hunker down and wait for soup.

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"The way I see flowers in relation to Dior is the way you see black in relation to Yohji Yamamoto, " says Simons on the phone from his car one evening, traveling from his home in Antwerp back to Paris after a long Easter weekend.

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This is the exhibition's point of greatest concentration, a fascinating sort of before and after, where the befores are seat-of-the-pants, coarsely done as if in the den or the dark, and the afters are refined appropriation, executed in ateliers of bright light and even brighter technique labels like Yohji Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen, Burberry and Balmain.

WSJ: Loud, Fast and Nasty | Punk: Chaos to Couture | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Laura Jacobs