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20th Exclusive Vol.7. Needles. Four shapes. Black and grey. 19 September 2026. All NUBIAN doors at open.
NUBIAN opens 20th Exclusive Vol.7 on Saturday 19 September 2026 at store open across its five-city shop list. The Needles lane is four track pieces in cotton jersey with a damaged finish: TRACK JACKET ¥53,900, ZIPPED TRACK HOODY ¥52,800, H.D. TRACK PANT ¥52,800, H.D. TRACK SHORT ¥45,100. Two bodies. Black takes black and charcoal tape. Grey takes white and grey tape. Excel zipper pulls carry the papillon stamp that Needles already uses on special-order hardware.
Vol.7 is not Needles alone. Same Saturday hangs ERNEST W. BAKER leather and Second/Layer thermal. The anniversary year has already used Needles in Vol.1 and Vol.5. This chapter is heavy sweat and wear, not corduroy from August.
Signal. What happened: NUBIAN scheduled 20th Exclusive Vol.7 for 19 Sept 2026. Exact product: Needles damaged cotton jersey track four-pack, two hue. When and where: all NUBIAN stores at open. Source: nubiantokyo.com Vol.7 post. Why it matters: the shop’s birthday series puts Keizo Shimizu’s track on a sweat body and then beats it. Earlier DRIFT: none on Vol.7.

Grey Distressed Track Jacket
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Needles track is a butterfly tape, a papillon, a set that reads from across a platform. NUBIAN’s exclusive keeps that grammar and changes the cloth. Heavyweight cotton jersey instead of the slicker poly knit people expect on a Firebird cousin. Damage processing so the surface already looks worn. The shop copy calls it vintage nuance. The garment is new stock with a factory fade.
Jacket and zipped hoody carry the upper. H.D. pant and H.D. short carry the lower. H.D. is Needles shorthand for the dropped, gathered track bottom the house has sold for years. Pairing those bottoms to a sweat body is the exclusive move. Tape contrast is tincture-locked: grey body gets white and grey, black body gets black and charcoal. Do not expect a rainbow tape on this board.
Excel zipper with papillon engraved pull is the hardware tell. Special-order Needles often uses that pull. Photograph the zipper head if you need proof the piece is the NUBIAN run and not a mainline jacket from last season.
Sizes on the official cards run the usual Needles spread. Try the hoody if you live in their track tops. Jersey sweat hangs different from poly tricot. Damage will catch on bags. That is the finish doing what it was told.
Prices sit in the mid-five-figure yen band. Jacket is the top of the four. Short is the floor. A set of jacket and pant is more than ¥100,000 before tax math on two hangtags. The 20th exclusive tag is what you are buying above a standard Needles track.
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Same Saturday: ERNEST W. BAKER contrast-pipe leather track jacket and cheetah tailored leather loafers. Second/Layer Zero Thermal in washed black at ¥51,700. Those SKUs share the Vol.7 header and the door. They do not share a fabric story with the Needles jersey. A customer can walk out with loafers and a damaged hoody. The anniversary series is built that way. Different friends of the shop, one date.
Needles already appeared in Vol.1 with Rick Owens and JULIUS, and in Vol.5 with Matthew M Williams, 424, and D.HYGEN. Repeating the brand inside a birthday year is the relationship talking. Vol.7’s Needles chapter is specifically damaged jersey track, not the cord set from August.
NUBIAN opened as a select shop that mixed luxury and street across Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, and the rest of the five-city map the Vol.7 post names. Store-open drops are how exclusives usually start. Online may follow. Confirm nubiantokyo.com the morning of the 19th for the web hour.
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All shops at open. That is the published rule. Popular Needles sizes in black leave first. Grey is the second photograph. Shorts leave if the weather is still warm. Pants leave if the customer already owns a Needles top.
No public lottery was listed on the Vol.7 news post. First-come at the door is the default unless a shop story adds a draw. Five cities means five different queues. Harajuku will be the loudest picture. Stock is exclusive, not infinite.
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19 September 2026. TRACK JACKET ¥53,900. ZIPPED TRACK HOODY ¥52,800. H.D. TRACK PANT ¥52,800. H.D. TRACK SHORT ¥45,100. Black or grey. Damaged cotton jersey. Papillon on the pull. Needles tape. NUBIAN 20th on the story.


