Models present creations at the Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2012 collection show during New York Fashion Week, February 13, 2012.[Photo/Agencies]

At the start of the Marc by Marc Jacobs show, a man's voice started chanting, and not in a very friendly way, "This is what you want, this is what you get." That could easily be Mr. Jacobs's mantra, at least with his younger-skewing collection, in which you want some great clothes and almost always get them.

This season, the look for girls consisted of shadow-print floral dresses, in red or blue, paired with bouclé coats that looked like wearable teddy bears, a long-sleeve gray checkerboard dress with a lightly flared skirt and, on Tati Cotliar, a sweet black and white pompom sweater that sort of looked like a soccer ball. For guys, there were band pants with gold trim on the legs, a trench in glittering gold, and fuzzy sweaters with rugby stripes. Most of the models wore tough-looking, lug-soled boots.