Miller was at the Madison Avenue space to give a talk, gratis, in connection with Louis Vuitton, which has installed a pop-up display called “200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries.” The company asked two hundred somebodies (including Miller) to design a trunk to mark the malletier’s second centennial. Archivists passed her Vuitton’s birth information, and she drew up his chart. “If I was in the hospital when Louis was born,” she said, “I would tell his mother that her son would be very successful.” The Miller trunk looks like an haute school science project: space-blue on the exterior, with a circular aperture that reveals the inside, where orbs representing Saturn and Pluto hang. Saturn, she said, “is very similar to Balanchine. He was a hard teacher, but the things you get with Saturn you never lose.”
Her mother, whom readers know as “Little Mom,” practiced the astrological arts. She told her daughter that she would be a writer, and that, around the age of forty, she’d begin working with a new form of technology. Susie chased her mother around as she vacuumed, hungry for more information. “She said there are little invisible dots or lines that go through the air that have something to do with your writing,” Miller recalled. “She predicted the Internet!”
To a Libra in hot pink who needed real-estate advice: “Don’t close until January 18th.”
Miller was surprised that not many Pisces had shown up. She says that they’re generous. “Barron Trump is a Pisces,” she said. “He’s going to give away his father’s money to philanthropy.” ♦
