The star of Monday's New York Fashion Week line up was indisputably Thom Browne, whose show was an haute couture theater of the absurd. From the latex leggings to the Bellatrix Lastrange hair, the look of the collection was pure electroshock therapy, in exquisitely tailored costumes that suggest that we should all loosen up when it comes to the shapes of our apparel.

Far from psychotic, Mr. Browne has a lucid recognition that fashion shows are about entertaining the imagination with a label's highest concepts. His ideas this...