At his show on Monday, he had those looks and more, including jumpsuits, hot pants, culottes, and those tight striped knits popular when many of the editors, stylists and retailers in the audience at the Lexington Avenue Armory were probably in grade school.

The retro vibe was amplified by frizzed-out hair, metallic sparkle eye shadow, floppy hats and giant, oversized flowers in the hair, around the neck or on thick, cinching belts.

The colors included purple, orange and hot pink, all of which are showing some staying power through this round of style previews.

For good, glitzy measure, there were silver and gold sequins, even on some platform sandals.

But not even Jacobs could fully ignore black, a fashion-editor favorite, sending out a black beaded bandeau bikini.

And he wore a black button-down shirt and black pants for his own bow.

Turning to Halston's show, the shoes to fill were big and expectations high, but Halston's creative director Marios Schwab said he tried not to think about that pressure in the lead up to his debut collection for the storied label.

He can now breathe a sigh of relief: He presented Monday night a warmly received series of dresses - and a handful of other silhouettes - in an industrial space in Manhattan's far west side.