The Simon Miller girl is growing up. While Chelsea Hansford has always envisioned her customer as a working creative, she has spent the last several years tailoring the brand’s look to mid-career professionals. “We’ve been honing in on our audience that’s a little older—thirties, forties,” she said. “She’s an interior designer, she’s an artist, she’s a gallerist, she’s a businesswoman, the founder of VC.”

Hansford is catering to her audience of free-spirited venture capitalists and gallerinas with an expansion of suiting and poplin pieces. Perhaps the biggest boon for business: this season, for the first time, Simon Miller is offering a sleeveless version of its staple Lock top, a poplin button-up with an open back flap and an adjustable waist-cinching tie. But there is also an abstract f

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