Nicolas Ottersten, creative director of Saudi’s popular streetwear label 1886, presented a collection that crystallized the brand’s evolution from its street roots into what he’s dubbed “urban luxury.” It’s a synthesis of power-dressing codes, old-money polish, and unapologetic ’80s ambition, all filtered through 1886’s signature street sensibility.

His Riyadh Fashion Week show opened with sharp tailoring that nodded to the era of Gordon Gekko: broad-shouldered blazers cut with the ease of a bomber jacket, pleated trousers with relaxed silhouettes that maintained their polish, and double-breasted overcoats rendered in premium wools. Ottersten’s interpretation of power dressing traded Wall Street rigidity for contemporary fluidity.

Where the old-money references emerged was in the fabrica

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