Jane Wade’s The Summit Blends Blue-Collar Utility With White-Collar Polish

Jane Wade opened The Summit as a study in opposites: office polish engineered to perform, and outdoors utility recast as a new kind of uniform. Labeled in the brand materials as the Fall/Winter 2026 collection, The Summit landed at New York Fashion Week on March 3, 2026 and was photographed in campaign shoots across Oregon, with images credited to Faith Nguyen alongside Anna Mirdita, Hui Murray and Aana Mirdita in the Red Bull gallery and additional photography by Kohl Murdock and Madeline Derujinsky in press features.

The collection is at once modular and tactile, moving from calibrated, teched-out shirting into full gorpcore moments. Wade summed that progression plainly: “This season was really about escaping into one’s desires to reconnect with nature. That was the storyline of The Summit. As the collection rolls out, you see these very teched out, office looks, and then the looks get deeper and deeper into gorpcore, these outdoorsy, tactile fabrics. There are these nuggets of how we can unravel our everyday job and reconnect with nature, reconnect with what matters, and reconnect with being outside.” The result is clothing built with performance fabrics and outdoors-inspired details but finished with the clean lines of white-collar tailoring.

The Summit makes its functional argument literal through a footwear collaboration with SOREL. The SOREL x Jane Wade partnership introduced two silhouettes, the Callsign Low and the Callsign Mule Shroud, rendered in Wade’s signature natural palette and styled as part of the runway looks rather than an afterthought. Officemag noted that the campaign, which relocates the Jane Wade archetype from controlled interiors to expansive landscapes, was shot across Oregon, a deliberate choice given both brands’ Portland roots and the state’s culture of everyday performance.

Wade has been building to this throughline across recent seasons. Papermag documents an earlier milestone—“In February, the brand presented its first runway on the official CFDA calendar with its Fall 2024 collection called ‘Out of Office’”—and a Spring 2025 presentation, “The Audit,” staged on Little 12th Street in the Meatpacking District during New York Fashion Week. Papermag also flagged past technical cameos, such as Salomon’s insertion of high-performance active and skiwear into Fall 2024, and argued that partnerships are essential to Wade’s production model. As Wade put it in that profile, “You have to draw a boundary internally with yourself and ask, ‘Is this partnership in alignment with what I'm trying to say, not only with my values and my morals, but also my narrative?’” She has treated the theme itself as a vehicle for staged identity: “The theme, in and of itself, becomes a fun way to layer in new identities, new codes, new concepts,” she explains.

Seen on models including Jaedyn Shaw and carried in imagery by Faith Nguyen and collaborators, The Summit is less a literal outdoor kit than a proposal for how workwear should behave in an age when the workplace, the weekend and the trail bleed into one another. With modular tailoring, performance textiles and footwear designed to travel from desk to ridge, Jane Wade has made the case that utility and polish are no longer opposing aesthetics but complementary tools of design.