British beauty Helen Mirren, 66, went for a glamorous royal blue Badgley Mischka gown with an on-trend tiered skirt and jeweled belt.

The tiered skirt foreshadows the shorter skirts that would arise in the early 1920s.

The tiered skirt, a brown leather dress and a navy chiffon dress with a full skirt are some of the styles the blazer accompanied.

"I felt very proud tonight that I was able to rock the tiered skirt," she said, playfully.

The Marc by Marc Jacobs show took the long tiered skirt of summer and abbreviated it to a cotton jersey mini.

Generally some sort of head-dressing, trousers under a tiered skirt or just trousers, a choli and/or ethnic coin bra are worn.

But then in a totally different mood, she shows a dress with a taut white lace camisole and a fluffy short black tiered skirt, and it is a knockout.

Naga Pullamma, 12, from India, contributed the wistfully titled "Fashion Lady," a small doll whose bodice and tiered skirt consist of seashells.

Lisa Trafficante was encouraging a bride trying a suit with a tiered skirt and an embroidered cowboy on a bucking horse.

She wore a traditional-style tiered skirt and head wrap, and was backed by half a dozen musicians, mostly drummers.