Jane Wade FW26 Takes It Straight to the Top

For Fall/Winter 2026, Jane Wade clocked out. She’s out of office; she’s using her paid time off, and she’s hitting the great outdoors.

In the designer’s Fall/Winter 2026 foray, formally entitled “The Summit,” Wade quit her day job, wavering from her traditional, highly cohesive corporate aesthetic and transitioning into an adventurous, adaptable archetype.

“The Jane Wade girl needs pieces that can be broken down and put back together in different ways,” Wade shared in a post-show interview. “They need to serve her in all facets of her life as she expresses herself differently.”

An escapist, what she calls “Gorp-Corp” envisioning of Wade’s Pacific Northwest hometown, The Summit sought to emulate the ethos of Portland, also the hometown of this season’s footwear partner, SOREL. The duo presented two collaborative models, the SOREL x Jane Wade Callsign Horizon™ Low and the  SOREL x Jane Wade Callsign™ Mule Shroud, on the runway, models – or shall I say, Ski Lift Operators, Avalanche Rescue, and Mountain Patrolers – pairing the tactical footwear with some of Wade’s most daringly textured pieces yet.

Upon stepping into the Brooklyn warehouse space, guests were transported to Wade’s Oregon hometown, stepping into an immersive mountain setting, lined with Douglas Fir trees and patches of moss and ivy. “I wanted to bring everyone home, into my home.”  Attendees were greeted with Hydrojugs on the bench-style seating arrangements, along with Gotham Goods’ new “My Sweet Jane” fragrance, which combines notes of smoked birch and oak moss.

As always, at Jane Wade, the runway collection extends far beyond the runway. It’s a whole world within the Jane Wade universe.

Explore the collection in the gallery above and read our full interview with Jane Wade below.

Let’s start at the beginning: the film that played before the runway started. Walk me through that. 

All of this is centered around the footwear collaboration with Sorel. Sorel is from Portland, and I’m from Portland, so I have a big connection to the brand. I grew up wearing the brand. When we asked if we could do the marketing campaign for it, I really had this huge idea that I wanted to fly my whole team out to Oregon, and shoot it in Oregon on Mount Hood. I used to go camping and hiking there. So we shot the film partially in Sorel’s headquarters in Portland, and the other half of it, on-location on the mountain.

The set design continues to build on this narrative as well. Could you say more about that component of the show? 

I wanted the set to be this distilled moment of the Pacific Northwest. There are ferns, Douglas Fir Trees, ivy, and moss. I wanted to bring everybody home into my home, where I grew up, and showcase that outdoorsy, transitional girly. I’ve been calling it “Gorp Corp.”

Even down to the details, everything was so dialed in. What are some of your favorite subtleties of the collection?

The casting was fun. There was one model who was the “Avalanche Rescue” character, and he was holding a rope and crampons for ice. My mom had an ice pick in her hair–– my mom walked the show!

That was your mom!?

Yes! My mom walked the show! She used to do fit modeling for Columbia Spotswear which is Sorel’s parent company. So it was all so fun. She was in the campaign. She was the CEO, an evil person. This whole collection is about my childhood spirit.

Tell me more about the textures and fabrics in this collection. 

In every collection, we continue to play with hand manipulations and textures. In the past few seasons, I’ve done yarn. I’ve done metal. This season, I really wanted to make the material paracord. So you see that theme throughout the commercial styles, and it shows up in small ways, like on pocketing and bungees, and then, you see the raw paracord material begin to build out the structured pieces later in the collection. We built all of those pieces in-house in our studio. It was really fun. It takes weeks and weeks to just make one of those, so it’s a lot of focus and dedication to the craft. It was a really fun way to work in those embellishments and fabric manipulations in a totally different material universe.

One last question: how does “The Summit” collection fit into the Jane Wade universe?

I feel like there’s always an umbrella theme of this girl trying to escape herself or uncover a new layer of herself, and for this season, it was the outdoor connection to nature. There’s always an athletic layer to it, but it’s definitely shaped around someone who is very multi-faceted and transitional. She needs pieces that can be broken down and put back together in different ways, and can serve her in different facets of her life as she expresses herself. So I’d say that’s the parent theme, but in this collection, it was very outdoors-focused and forward.