Jason Wu has fashion down to a fine art.
The designer teamed with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on “Collage,” his innovative spring 2026 ready-to-wear collection. Inspired by Rauschenberg’s fabric-focused Hoarfrost series (1974–76) and Airport Suite editions (1974), the New York-based talent created unique mixed-media pieces that layer translucent textiles, solvent-transferred images and novel materials.
Kai Schreiber opened the show, which was held in the cavernous Agger Fish building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The platinum-blond daughter of actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber has walked in five high-profile presentations this season, including Calvin Klein and Michael Kors. Only 16, she navigates the runway with confidence and grace.
“She’s doing a great job,” said a proud Watts, who sat front row alongside Danai Gurira, Devon Windsor, Larsen Thompson and Lily Rabe and her husband Hamish Linklater. “She’s been practicing for this a long time. She’s a dancer as well and she loves fashion.”
With a drone flying overhead, the models wove their way through Rauschenberg’s installation A Quake in Paradise (Labyrinth) (1994), a series of transparent, reflective, and opaque panels. These feature the artist’s own photographs alongside Aaron Siskind’s Divers from the 1950s Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation series.
The clothing, featuring swingy strips of washed satin, silk twill and organza, moved with the models. Wu patchworked together everything from slips and bras to jackets and swaying evening gowns. Many of the pieces also featured delicate embroidery and artisanal finishes, which added to the poetic mood.
Like the Rauschenberg compositions that inspired them, these garments are works of art.
