Last season, Jill Stuart presented elegant, pleated flowing dresses, in predominant shades of vanilla, ivory and gold for her spring collection. Her newest collection picks up those same silhouettes but saturates them with deep chromatic shades for fall.

Dresses hit at the knee or just past. Skirts were micro-pleated and swished with each step. Necklines were high and demure. Many looks were long-sleeved.

While that sounds like a lot of fabric, it was cut to hug the body, which elongated legs and outlined arms. Many dresses were color-blocked, creating asymmetric, dynamic lines through the placement of high contrast shades like deep navy, saffron orange and blood red.

After the show, Jill Stuart said that the fall collection was an evolution from her spring line. She wanted to keep working with the mid-calf length flowing dresses, she said.

"I'm still feeling very strongly about the pleating and that silhouette," Jill Stuart said, adding that the color combinations were inspired by the work of photographer Heidi Specker. "The pleated dress is timeless."

Showing two collections featuring a classic, slightly 70′s look suggested that such looks are classic and can be worn year-round, Stuart said, adding that for fall, a good investment piece is a pleated dress, tweeds and unfussy knits.