In Paris, Shapes of Things to Come

PARIS — Junya Watanabe said the movie Ex Machina was on his mind when he was working on his new collection. Its main character is a beautiful humanoid robot called Ava, and she was the inspiration for another of Junya’s sculptural fusions of human and synthetic. It’s always been his own particular alchemy to transform the most functional machine-made materials into flights of fashion fancy, and so it was on Saturday when he used polyester mesh from Japanese motorbike clothing brand…