Amid our ongoing love affair with sports—and boasting new collaborations with Riccardo Tisci, Kim Jones, and Jun Takahashi—Nike steps up into fashion’s premiership.

In the beginning, sports and fashion were two worlds, separately created by separate gods. In 1964, when Bill Bowerman shook hands with Phil Knight and set out on the road to designing Nike’s now iconic shoes with a waffle iron in a kitchen in Oregon (all function, very little form), Yves Saint Laurent was on the verge of debuting a Mondrian A-line dress that was, conversely, designed not for speed or stretching or any kind of performance aside from, say, a Merce Cunningham premiere.

Sprint forward to today, when we are all faster, stronger, more flexible in terms of how we move, what we do, and when we do it. Which means that fashion and sports (and the streets that sports live on) have become one world, with crossover gods. Today, a young designer like Shayne Oliver starts his career not at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, Saint Laurent’s alma mater, but by making T-shirts and sweatshirts for friends. Alexander Wang is showing neoprene sweats. Rihanna is working with Puma, Kanye with Adidas. And now the paradigm shift as Nike, the world’s top-seeded maker of clothing designed to help break world records, steps in to play in the world of ready-to-wear. Nike’s designers haven’t just been hanging out in locker rooms. “We go to a lot of shows,” one of them told me.

Movement and speed and ease and functionality are now intrinsic to so much that we wear, whether on the field or in an Uber. Thus we have NikeLab, the place where Nike designers work out with that fashion world. Up to now, the results have been on the gorgeous side: In her fall/holiday pieces for NikeLab (she did a spring/summer collection, too), Sacai’s Chitose Abe took company staples like Windrunners and Tech Fleece and added sheer trapeze pleats and proportions that made the pieces seem to fly. Now we have three NikeLab collections (Summer of Sport, they’re calling it) set to leave the gate to celebrate the Rio Olympics—in collaboration with Kim Jones, Jun Takahashi, and Riccardo Tisci.