If you are more than 10 minutes late to a Jill Stuart show, you risk losing a limb to the paparazzi, who form a pack of jostling elbows, clicking cameras and blitzkrieg flashes around the likes of Jessica Szhor, Mena Suvari and Michelle Trachtenberg.

Ms. Stuart's Fall 2010 collection featured ultra-high miniskirts and saucy over-the-knee boots, accessorized with chunky scarves and heavy-knit sweaters. A few jackets had a straightforward militaristic look, but most looks were flirty, sassy little things meant for dancing on tables.

Last year, Ms. Stuart said she was channeling Cher as her muse, but this season, she turned to Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marianne Faithfull. "I'm always thinking rock n' roll," the designer said. Gainsbourg and Faithfull were women who weren't afraid to mix decades, prints, textures and silhouettes, Ms. Stuart said.

Ms. Stuart describes the resulting mix of party dresses and masculine-tailored jackets "modern vintage" and "luxe bohemian."

She said that since her first collection, in 1995, featured heavy knits, she felt like she was returning to her roots. But the Jill Stuart collection is also looking to the future: The designer took a bow with her 22-year-old daughter, Morgan, who recently joined her mother as an assistant designer. "She's a huge inspiration to me, " Ms. Stuart said. "She brings a lot of great ideas."