# ดรอปแรกจาก NEEDLES FW26: Poly Jacquard, Double Cloth, เฟลนเนลมือสอง จากโตเกียว

**By Onion** · 2026-09-04

## Clothes that shouldn't share a closet

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A collegiate blazer with sweatpants. A jacquard overcoat with balloon trousers. Laid out on a table, they look like they escaped from different closets, different decades, different stories.

Worn together, they hold. That is how Needles Fall/Winter 2026 thinks.

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Needles began in Tokyo in 1997, from Keizo Shimizu, who had founded Nepenthes back in 1988 to import American clothing into Japan. Nearly a decade in, he felt something was still missing, so he built his own label. Shimizu rarely designs from zero. He takes what already exists: seventies warm-up suits, western shirts, secondhand flannel, and re-edits them into something that never existed before. Even the butterfly on the chest is borrowed: Steve McQueen's tattoo in Papillon.

FW26 follows the same method and pushes it harder. The clashes are deliberate this season: animal print against patchwork fleece, pinstripe suiting against leather varsity, house-woven jacquard against poly twill cut like workwear. Shimizu isn't asking what matches. He's asking why anything has to. What lands now is the season's first drop.

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> Things that don't belong together can still be worn together. That is the centre of this collection.

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Needles isn't asking you to agree. Just pick two things that shouldn't work, and walk out the door.

**Tags:** Feature, FW26, Japan, Needles, Nepenthes

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