Nicole Miller played with the trend in the way her streetwise customers would.

Nicole Miller is adding an expensive top end to her collection, designs that typically sell for $400 to $500.

Nicole Miller was not at home when the fire broke out.

Nicole Miller now collects 80 percent of its sales through specialty stores.

"This is much better," said the designer Nicole Miller, who first heard of the plan yesterday.

As Nicole Miller pointed out, it would force designers to show their clothes long before the consumer was ready to buy.

A Nicole Miller show produces its own form of excitement.

Nicole Miller describes the bottom note in her new fragrance as "creaminess."

Nicole Miller is using those groups as inspiration this season.

Nicole Miller today is a huge business, with licenses that benefit from the hubbub of a fashion show.

Nicole Miller played with the trend in the way her streetwise customers would.

Nicole Miller is adding an expensive top end to her collection, designs that typically sell for $400 to $500.

Nicole Miller was not at home when the fire broke out.

Nicole Miller now collects 80 percent of its sales through specialty stores.

"This is much better," said the designer Nicole Miller, who first heard of the plan yesterday.

As Nicole Miller pointed out, it would force designers to show their clothes long before the consumer was ready to buy.

A Nicole Miller show produces its own form of excitement.

Nicole Miller describes the bottom note in her new fragrance as "creaminess."

Nicole Miller is using those groups as inspiration this season.

Nicole Miller today is a huge business, with licenses that benefit from the hubbub of a fashion show.