Jason Wu collaborates with Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on art-inspired collection

Jason Wu has manner down to a good art. 

The designer teamed pinch nan Robert Rauschenberg Foundation connected “Collage,” his innovative outpouring 2026 ready-to-wear collection. Inspired by Rauschenberg’s fabric-focused Hoarfrost bid (1974–76) and Airport Suite editions (1974), nan New York-based talent created unsocial mixed-media pieces that furniture translucent textiles, solvent-transferred images and caller materials.

Kai Schreiber opened nan show, which was held successful nan cavernous Agger Fish building astatine nan Brooklyn Navy Yard. The platinum-blond girl of actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber has walked successful 5 high-profile presentations this season, including Calvin Klein and Michael Kors. Only 16, she navigates nan runway pinch assurance and grace.  

“She’s doing a awesome job,” said a proud Watts, who sat beforehand statement alongside Danai Gurira, Devon Windsor, Larsen Thompson and Lily Rabe and her hubby Hamish Linklater. “She’s been practicing for this a agelong time. She’s a dancer arsenic good and she loves fashion.” 

With a drone flying overhead, nan models wove their measurement done Rauschenberg’s installation A Quake successful Paradise (Labyrinth) (1994), a bid of transparent, reflective, and opaque panels. These characteristic nan artist’s ain photographs alongside Aaron Siskind’s Divers from nan 1950s Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation series. 

The clothing, featuring swingy strips of washed satin, silk twill and organza, moved pinch nan models. Wu patchworked together everything from slips and bras to jackets and swaying evening gowns. Many of nan pieces besides featured delicate embroidery and artisanal finishes, which added to nan poetic mood.

Like nan Rauschenberg compositions that inspired them, these garments are useful of art.