Jane Wade’s Fashionable Fall 2025 Corporate Merger, Led by Lisa Rinna
On the Jane Wade fall runway, Lisa Rinna was the HBIC.
Or as Wade referred to her backstage, the chief financial officer of a fictitious corporate giant attempting to absorb the designer’s independent company — a part of the show’s overarching, tongue-in-cheek storyline about the “theatricality of the deal.”
Before Rinna, clad in new sharp-shouldered, tropical wool tailoring and a signature striped poplin button-down, power-walked her way into the circular runway’s center boardroom, Wade set the stage with refreshed takes on her cheeky, utility-bent sartorial corporate archetypes.
The hierarchy of office dynamics spanned from interns — a model donning a great new lofty cashmere zip-front sweater with slashed utility skirt who was tasked with bringing the Olipop beverages to the meeting — to executive assistants to senior vice presidents and up.
Wade said the theme was a response to her personal and professional growth, pointing out the intern [or Wade, five years prior] and executive assistant who each wore new pencil-skirted cashmere looks detailed with the brand’s custom cast hardware. They were strong examples of Wade’s continued push to bridge the gap between the made-to-order, specialty styles and the retail friendly, workwear-meets-officeware (but sexuality-tinged) classics.
Alongside her signature, still-great twisted cotton pinstripe shirting and exaggerated utilitarian layers, were sharp wool tailoring, fully fashioned cashmere knitwear, and strong-shouldered topcoats. All of it reflected a maturity for the designer — one that should continue leveling Wade up to the top of the boardroom.
