Hence the birth of Needles.” But Shimizu’s fashion venture began in 1988, when he launched Nepenthes, a distribution company in Japan with a special focus on U.S.-made goods. He opened the ...

Founded in 1988 as part of designer Keizo Shimizu’s parent company Nepenthes, Needles was initially created to support imported items in the shop and was born after a trademark dispute when ...

The collaboration is set to drop in-store and online on November 3 via Nepenthes New York. Needles has never shied away from getting delightfully weird with its clothes—unafraid to mix patterns ...

Instagram mood board turned global streetwear brand HIDDEN.NY is partnering with Tokyo-based NEEDLES again for a capsule that will launch exclusively at the NEPENTHES Tokyo store. The range is ...

Nepenthes is one of the New York's best slices of Japanese fashion, offsetting its own in-house line with labels like Engineered Garments, and Needles. In the brand/store's latest editorial ...

It's got a major cult following in Japan and the rest of the world, but Nepenthes brands like Needles have not been available in the United States — until right now. In keeping with the ...

Nepenthes is a worm that creates infinite maze-like traps to target crawlers, who scrape data to train large language models (LLMs). The author warns that Nepenthes 'actually eats everything that ...

Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them. Web crawlers play a central role in the race for the best AI model ...

Just asking questions is all. There was a lot to be curious about at Nepenthes, a Japanese company that is parent to Engineered Garments and Needles, brands slowly deconstructing heritage formalism.

Go up to the second floor and you’ll find a feast of shoes, from benchmade Aldens and flower child clogs to a grip of collaborative sneakers from EG and Needles. (Nepenthes, based in Japan ...

Needles, one of the many fire Japanese labels found at Nepenthes, recently dropped its Spring/Summer 2016 lookbook. Needless to say, it's a continuation of the comfortable, loose aesthetic that ...