With a year-in-the-making Sorel collaboration and a Pacific Northwest narrative, Wade takes her utility codes outdoors.

For Fall/Winter 2026, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/jane-wade-spring-summer-2026-runway-looks-nothing-technology-collab-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jane Wade</a> isn&rsquo;t just staging a runway show&mdash;she&rsquo;s staging an escape plan.
Titled The Summit, the collection follows what Wade describes as a corporate woman dreaming of the outdoors. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all about this outdoor expedition,&rdquo; she explains. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s this woman who&rsquo;s trapped in her corporate position and really wants to go on this journey out into the great expanse.&rdquo; That tension between structure and wilderness drives the entire season.
If Wade&rsquo;s work has always lived in the space between utility and narrative, this season pushes it further into technical terrain. Nylons, tent-like constructions, trail-runner archetypes, and avalanche rescue references weave throughout the collection. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll see ski lift operators, snow cat drivers, avalanche rescue crew&mdash;all of these characters she&rsquo;s meeting along the way,&rdquo; Wade tells L&rsquo;OFFICIEL. The result feels cinematic, but grounded in real gear.
That realism is where Sorel comes in.
The Portland-based footwear brand partnered with Wade after multiple seasons of conversation. What began as a runway partnership evolved into a full collaboration that&rsquo;s been in development for nearly a year. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been working on this shoe collaboration for almost a year now,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s always hard when you&rsquo;ve been working on something for so long because you&rsquo;re like, &lsquo;Ah, I can&rsquo;t wait for everyone to see it.&rsquo;&rdquo;
The collaboration ultimately grew into four styles. Two thigh-high runway-exclusive boots&mdash;one in cowhide, one in canvas &mdash;lean into Wade&rsquo;s workwear storytelling, complete with adjustable zippers and snaps. A sneaker arrives in her signature blue colorway, mixing cowhide hair with canvas. And then there&rsquo;s the mule: a convertible slide with a removable lace cover, something she &ldquo;really fought for.&rdquo;

&ldquo;I wanted that notion of a piece being able to be taken apart,&rdquo; Wade says. Modular design has long been part of her internal language, and this shoe continues that thread.
Performance wasn&rsquo;t sacrificed for aesthetics. The shoes are built with Vibram soles and Gore-Tex lining, designed to function as well as they style. &ldquo;We wanted it to be performance-based. You could wear this in the city. You could go on a hike in it."
Importantly, the footwear wasn&rsquo;t an afterthought. Wade integrated it into the collection from the beginning. &ldquo;It was really considered from the start,&rdquo; she says, noting that footwear operates on a longer production cycle than garments. She committed early to specific fabrics and colors so that the shoes and clothing would align exactly. She even pushed Sorel to work with her U.S.-based fabric mill. &ldquo;I had to rope them into using my fabrics and my materials,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;They were really collaborative.&rdquo;

Jane Wade Fall/Winter 2026. Photography by Hatnim Lee, courtesy of Jane Wade.

The collection&rsquo;s Pacific Northwest spirit is deeply personal. Wade grew up in Portland&mdash;the same city Sorel calls home. &ldquo;I grew up with that girl,&rdquo; she says, referencing the &ldquo;granola gorp individual&rdquo; who clocks out at five to go skiing or camping. Her mother, a competitive skier and former Columbia Sportswear fit model, is even walking in the show. &ldquo;It felt super full circle,&rdquo; Wade says.
Like all of her collections, The Summit began with a story before product. Wade works with a strategy team to build out the narrative first, then aligns partners accordingly. &ldquo;Collaborations are such a fun starting point of each collection,&rdquo; she explains. &ldquo;We think about what is the story we want to tell, and then we reach out to partners that are in perfect alignment.&rdquo;
This season, that alignment extends beyond Sorel&mdash;but footwear is the anchor. Rugged, adaptable, and slightly unconventional, the collaboration feels less like a logo swap and more like a natural extension of Wade&rsquo;s world.
The Sorel x Jane Wade Callsign Low Sneaker and Mule Shroud will be available on <a href="http://sorel.com">sorel.com</a> and <a href="http://jane-wade.com">jane-wade.com</a> on Friday, Feb. 13.

Jane Wade’s Fall/Winter 2026 Summit Is Built for the Great Escape

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