Jason Wu’s Spring 2026 collection lands like a gallery show disguised as a runway. Teaming with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Wu trades in brushstrokes for fabric scraps, transforming clothes into collaged compositions that walk the fine line between art installation and everyday wear. Rauschenberg’s Hoarfrost and Airport Suite works of the mid-70s were the starting point, and you can see their DNA stitched right into the seams—sheer layers, transferred images and unexpected materials stacked one over the other like fragments of memory refusing to fade.

The opening looks set the tone: a sleeveless shift in sheer white, appliquéd with architectural blocks, almost like cutouts from a blueprint reimagined as fashion. Another came in utilitarian khaki, its belted waist and panels edged

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