I remember buying a number of Nicole Miller ties in the early 1990’s…
he first Nicole Miller boutique opened on New York’s Madison Avenue in 1986. The store did well, but Miller’s first big break came by accident.
Miller had made a series of silk dresses with a print made out of a design of theater tickets. Bud Konheim, her business partner of 22 years, remembers the dresses were “awful.” Konheim and Miller discussed using the silk to make women’s scarves but settled on men’s ties instead. A security guard at the Madison Avenue boutique also happened to work nights at the Metropolitan Opera. He borrowed one of the ties and showed it to a buyer of the Met’s gift shop.