Womens SS 2008 “Neo Boy” Embroidered Hem Silk Dress
This dress has the words of Patti Smith’s poem “Neo Boy” from her work Babel (1978) printed along the hem of the skirt.
Y’s by Yohji Yamamoto Canvas over Leather Oxford Shoes
neo boy, neo boy, neo boy,
neo boy melts in jelly machine,
the whole thing is how he can change the scene or be a changeling,
transformation is relative says neo boy.
what can you say about habitat that hasn’t been said before?
greedy children lap up radioactive jewels spit in the dunes by these so-called know-it-alls.
soon the gleaming bones of innocents will be scattering the sands and some enterprising old soul will gather them up in an old leather bag and sell them to a contact.
some kinda roman woman or some kinda bird head.
a beautiful though thoughtless,
childless shrew who will rearrange the bones with all the discreet adoration of a Japanese boy adjusting his weapon.
he dons his bird face mask and plucks up a sharp metal star and cuts a new scene from a sheet of copper.
what can you say about habitat that hasn’t been said again?
we take these pieces of paper.
we bend them into birds and we fill the illiterate…