How did the start of Evil Needles come about? What about the origin of the name?
Evilneedles came about totally by accident. Like many independent clothing designers, I started out reconstructing band tees. While I was living in NY my reconstructions caught on with the local punk scene and I just kind of ran with it. It then got really big really fast and I barely had time to breathe. Every couple of months I’d have a chance to step back from my machines and create something new, and that’s when I would come up with things like my butterfly back top, my thermal sparrow top, or my olive cowl neck top, which were/are some of my best sellers. When boutiques would contact me they always wanted my original creations, but the band tees kept me so backed up that I just didn’t have time to fill these orders. I wish I had a cool story about the name, but it’s really pretty lame. When I was a little kid I used to be in a T.V. show in South America. My character’s name was Chunita, and that was what I used as my first company name. Then one night my boyfriend said, “You need
