Services will be held Saturday at the Greenwich Village Funeral Parlor for Thomas Miller, a longtime associate of Anna Sui. Miller died Saturday at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York.
The 61-year-old succumbed after a series of strokes in the past few weeks, Sui said.
Born near Wisconsin and raised in California, Miller graduated from UCLA and later relocated to the East Coast. He and Sui first connected in the Eighties, when the designer was running her business from her downtown loft and in search of additional help. She said, “One of my customers, who had a store in the East Village, said, ‘Oh, I have this friend. Maybe you should meet him. He studied design at UCLA and I think you two would hit it off.’ And we hit it off — that was 33 years ago. He was with me every step of the way in building this business,” Sui said.
Describing Miller as her “right hand,” Sui said he worked on all the fashion shows, coordinated with the model agencies and production teams, worked with the numerous artists, who designed graphics and print designs for collaborations, as well as invitations and backdrops. Miller was integral in the execution of “The
The 61-year-old succumbed after a series of strokes in the past few weeks, Sui said.
Born near Wisconsin and raised in California, Miller graduated from UCLA and later relocated to the East Coast. He and Sui first connected in the Eighties, when the designer was running her business from her downtown loft and in search of additional help. She said, “One of my customers, who had a store in the East Village, said, ‘Oh, I have this friend. Maybe you should meet him. He studied design at UCLA and I think you two would hit it off.’ And we hit it off — that was 33 years ago. He was with me every step of the way in building this business,” Sui said.
Describing Miller as her “right hand,” Sui said he worked on all the fashion shows, coordinated with the model agencies and production teams, worked with the numerous artists, who designed graphics and print designs for collaborations, as well as invitations and backdrops. Miller was integral in the execution of “The
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