Style Setter
Bash Decisions
Veteran party wear designer Nicole Miller dishes about afterfive edge and why her city-smart brides spurn Cinderella skirts
Above: Miller tests out one of the bertoia chairs in her revamped virginia shop.
Anyone on the cocktail party circuit — or who has been a bride or bridesmaid recently — knows Nicole Miller as one of the biggest, boldest names in eveningwear. Since launching her brashly glam line in 1990, the redheaded, level-headed Miller has used her background in both art and couture to distill dresses at once appropriate and edgy. We caught up with her as she visited her newly remodeled Tysons Galleria store (2001 International Dr., McLean; 703-827-7730). JENNIFER BARGER
