Jane Wade Is Still Outside for Spring 2027

Building upon Jane Wade’s Fall 2026 collection, which translated the brand’s corporate-core aesthetic into an outdoorsy retreat, the designer is opting to spend some more time basking in the sun for Spring 2027.

“Last season, we were hiking the Great Mount expedition to ‘The Summit,’ and this season, that glacial melt is trickling off, running down through waterfall and into the creek for ‘The Riverbed’,” Wade told Fashionista at her Brooklyn studio ahead of her runway show on Friday afternoon.

Jane Wade’s Spring 2027 collection, entitled “The Riverbed,” dives further into nature-inspired design details, but this time with an emphasis on aquatic and amphibious references. (“I really wanted it to feel like spending the day at the river in the sun with your friends,” Wade said.) The collection mixes “everyday office fabrics” with nylon and ripstop, while also exploring the finishings and treatments seen in sport materials.

At the label’s runway show, which was set under the beating sun at Pier 64, the collection’s outdoorsy starting point was on full display via backpacking gear, branded water bottles and gingham prints. (Plus, some models even went barefoot.) Drawing from Wade’s Pacific Northwest upbringing and her time spent in the open air, the collection also featured cargo pants, funnel-neck jackets and a tent-like umbrella (a.k.a. a pale girl’s dream accessory). However, Jane Wade isn’t abandoning its workwear beginnings; it still embraced button-up tops, loose-fitting trousers and corseted silhouettes.

“I think this season, especially spring, is a really fun time to leave the office,” Wade said. “It’s a fun time to leave into the greatest expanse of outdoors. Touching grass is a big theme of what we’re talking about.”

One of the collection’s standout designs (and one of Wade’s personal favorites) is a strapless alligator-print dress with sculptural, protruding hips — but don’t fret, it’s not actually alligator skin. In pursuit of capturing the reptile’s scaly texture, Wade developed a new technique to emboss cowhide to feel like alligator skin. It also underwent three separate passes of screen printing to achieve its aquatic sheen.

“It feels like a really fun place when you arrive creatively where you feel like people can identify what your branding looks like based on your imagery and your color treatment,” Wade said. “And now that I feel that we’ve really built that foundation for the brand, now it’s a really fun time to play and experiment with different layers of new treatments, introducing a new feeling to the brand codes.”

Ahead, see all the looks from Jane Wade’s Spring 2027 collection.