Founded by Japanese design impresario Keizo Shimizu in 1988, Needles is a highly referential, cross-cultural melding of Shimizu’s life-long fixation on archetypal American dress—from Preppy Handbook ease to California hippie—with traditional and modern Japanese garment construction. Shimizu’s fall-winter mix brings a striped collegiate zip-front jacket with a Teddy-bear faux-fur collar, generously proportioned button-front shirts with ascot collars and regimental stripes, and a brushed-mohair cardigan featuring a lilac jacquard-knit butterfly motif.