Wed, 07/06/2011

What would Alexis Carrington think? Designer Nolan Miller Retires from QVC after 19 Years

Home shopping's QVC announced last weekend that legendary designer Nolan Miller has retired after 19 years of designing fashion and jewelry collections for the network.

We thought that this would be an excellent time to showcase one of our favorite clips from his Archive of American Television interview, where the master of glamour (who began his TV career at NBC in the 1950s) discusses how high-fashion was built into Dynasty from day-one and how Joan Collins almost didn't get the role she was born to play....

See his last QVC collection here.

And while we're on the subject of Dynasty, here's a clip of Joan Collins, in her Archive interview, discussing how she landed the role of Alexis Carrington: