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. View this post on InstagramA post shared by HYPEBEAST (@hypebeast) 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 on