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Describing anything about Miller’s physique as a problem seems like a stretch. “The problem with me is my hips,” she said. She adjusted the hem of the skirt then pulled the waist lower. The high-drama belt shifted the outfit into overdrive, so she switched out the blouse for a more restrained Calvin Klein shirt, adorned with bugle beads. She retreated to the dressing room with an armful of hangers, emerging first in that Bill Blass skirt (“Ooh, dress up!” she said), topped with a grommet-studded Gianfranco Ferré blouse. “It’s more interesting to play the love,” she added. “They’re fighting for something they’re fighting for their voice to be heard,” she said. Is she interested in strength and power herself? “I would be lying if I didn’t say, like, a little bit,” she said. “This is a woman who had me at 15, who didn’t have her high school education, but she found a way to nurture me and invest in me,” Miller said. (That encouragement helped her secure a spot at Carnegie Mellon’s theater program, which propelled her to Broadway, then onto shows like “Madam Secretary” and “Mercy Street.”) With the money she saved on clothes, Miller’s mother paid for piano lessons and encouraged her daughter to sing in the church choir. “I just love how the things that were popular then keep coming back around,” she said, fingering a Geoffrey Beene blazer.īack then, in small-town South Carolina, Miller’s clothing came from Goodwill, which was what her single mother, a minister, could afford. Those same looks, she noted, have become fashionable again. Sorting through the racks, she recalled her own acid-washed ’90s styles, modeled on the girl groups of the day, Salt-N-Pepa, TLC, En Vogue.

She held up a purple suit with a Muppet-y feel.

14, she is also appearing nearly nightly as the Witch in the Broadway revival of “Into the Woods.” (In September, when she begins shooting the third season of “Raising Kanan,” she will stick with the musical through its latest extension, performing on the weekends only.)

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While promoting the second season of the Starz series “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” which premiered on Aug. Miller, 37, who broke out about a decade ago in the Broadway production of “Sister Act” and then won a Tony for her starring turn in “Pippin,” is no stranger to high drama. She clasped the gold buckle around her waist, smoothing the fabric of a Bill Blass tiger print skirt. The actress Patina Miller considered the options, but not for long. At Screaming Mimi’s, an upscale vintage emporium just south of Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, the store’s manager, Dani Cabot, held out a variety of belts: a wide band from Donna Karan, a minimalist cincher from Claude Montana and what Cabot described as a “high-drama Moschino moment.”