Nicole Miller
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"Nicole Miller" is an American fashion designer, businesswoman who was born in Texas and raised in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Miller attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she earned a BFA in Apparel Design. She studied for a year at Fédération française de la couture/L'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne where she was trained to drape fabric and study the classical techniques of couture. Miller described her Parisian training as "intense," but explained that it gave her training in fabric manipulation, which became a signature of her designs.

Miller's first shop opened in 1986 on Madison Avenue. The brand has grown to 20 boutiques in major cities across the United States.

and is sold in a number of high-end department stores. Miller designs an extensive collection for J.C. Penney and a home furnishing collection for Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Of her style, the designer has said: "I've always been downtown and uptown. I've had a lot of artist friends and I was always a little bit of a renegade." Her modern design aesthetic is known for its bright prints and patterns.

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It's really a lot of fun. But every season it seems that I come up with new silhouette ideas that seem to take hold and have a lot of longevity.

What I would say is probably what every designer would say, is that my size is true to size and theirs are all wrong. I feel like I have a very fair 8, I don't cut a big 8.

It is hard to find a stylish yet functional cell phone case. I have designed a line that will accessorize any outfit, whether casual or dressy. Some of the cases can be used as a small purse, and have delicate embellishments inspired by my Celtic collection.

I've done a lot of color, and I've gone further with geometric prints, ... I went to a much more naive hand, and some of them were done with construction paper and Spiralgraphs, almost like a child would do them.

I'm not showing any black, ... All of the colors are orange, you know, roses. There's a beautiful shade of aqua this year, and a really nice lilac, a deep lilac.

She wore this scarf dress of mine and we got about 1,000 calls for it in the next week.

Well, wouldn't you? Everybody wants to be a size 2, right?

I call (it) pistachio and the only sort of dark color in the collection is indigo but it's a really rich blue. I don't think you always want to wear pastels for evening. Most of the collection is sort of pale.

A dress is an entire outfit. You don't have to worry if everything works together. You avoid that feeling of getting up in the morning, where you have a top to wear, but you can't find a skirt.