Sartorial Poetry
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It’s not often that an original poem runs in a show’s notes. But the following was printed in the Issey Miyake materials. The title of the poem, which was not attributed, plays off the brand’s APOC (For “a piece of clothing”) line, which uses technology to limit waste.
Pia Catton
A-pocalypytic Lovers
Without care of consequence
Or mercy Filled with desire
The box
That should never have been unsealed,
The box
That was forbidden
Was opened
Bringing
The epoch of woe and torment
And in the midst
Live the lovers
Together for the whole of their lives
Collecting each other’s memories through the years
Entwining their souls
The two strive
To overcome apocalyptic time
Their memories
Are poems to sustaining life on earth
And in the box
Remains the hope of Eden
