British Vogue and Lee Miller
04/02/21 • 27 min
Lee Miller’s photography of British fashion for Vogue during World War 2 was prolific yet few are aware of the full extent of this body of her work. Many know Lee Miller’s name in connection to her inspirational World War 2 reportage. Few are aware of the volume of her British fashion images that were published on British Vogue’s pages from 1939 to 1944.
The six part series is created in connection with the publication and exhibition 'Lee Miller Fashion in Wartime Britain'. Presented by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller's grandaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives it explores British fashion during the war, Lee Miller's contribution to the fashion industry in these years and her significant service to the survival of British Vogue magazine.
This episode features Robin Muir:
Robin Muir is a photographic historian, exhibitions arranger and writer on photography. He has curated major exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven. His most recent exhibitions are Vogue 100 A Century of Style for the National Portrait Gallery and Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things, also for the National Portrait Gallery, which opened and closed in 2020 but will open again — we hope! — in Sheffield in April. He is currently a Contributing Editor to British Vogue
The series is presented by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller's grandaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives
Guest speakers include: Fashion Historian Amber Butchart, Robin Muir, contributing editor to British Vogue, Hilary Roberts, senior curator of photography, Imperial War Museums London, Julie Summers, biographer of Audrey Withers and contemporary fashion and fine art photographer Viviane Sassen.
Produced by Tolly Robinson
Music from DeWolf Music
This series was made possible by public funding awarded by Arts Council England from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund
Podcast content: © Lee Miller Archives, England 2021. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lee Miller’s photography of British fashion for Vogue during World War 2 was prolific yet few are aware of the full extent of this body of her work. Many know Lee Miller’s name in connection to her inspirational World War 2 reportage. Few are aware of the volume of her British fashion images that were published on British Vogue’s pages from 1939 to 1944.
The six part series is created in connection with the publication and exhibition 'Lee Miller Fashion in Wartime Britain'. Presented by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller's grandaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives it explores British fashion during the war, Lee Miller's contribution to the fashion industry in these years and her significant service to the survival of British Vogue magazine.
This episode features Robin Muir:
Robin Muir is a photographic historian, exhibitions arranger and writer on photography. He has curated major exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven. His most recent exhibitions are Vogue 100 A Century of Style for the National Portrait Gallery and Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things, also for the National Portrait Gallery, which opened and closed in 2020 but will open again — we hope! — in Sheffield in April. He is currently a Contributing Editor to British Vogue
The series is presented by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller's grandaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives
Guest speakers include: Fashion Historian Amber Butchart, Robin Muir, contributing editor to British Vogue, Hilary Roberts, senior curator of photography, Imperial War Museums London, Julie Summers, biographer of Audrey Withers and contemporary fashion and fine art photographer Viviane Sassen.
Produced by Tolly Robinson
Music from DeWolf Music
This series was made possible by public funding awarded by Arts Council England from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund
Podcast content: © Lee Miller Archives, England 2021. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Taster of Episode 2
A taster of the second episode presented by Ami Bouhassane (granddaughter of Lee Miller and Co-Director of her Archives) who in the coming episode speaks with Robin Muir contributing editor to British Vogue and photographic historian.
Full Episode to Release on 2nd April 2021
Robin Muir is a photographic historian, exhibitions arranger and writer on photography. He has curated major exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven. His most recent exhibitions are Vogue 100 A Century of Style for the National Portrait Gallery and Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things, also for the National Portrait Gallery, which opened and closed in 2020 but will open again — we hope! — in Sheffield in April. He is currently a Contributing Editor to British Vogue
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Lee Miller’s photography of British fashion for Vogue during World War 2 was prolific yet few are aware of the full extent of this body of her work. Many know Lee Miller’s name in connection to her inspirational World War 2 reportage. Few are aware of the volume of her British fashion images that were published on British Vogue’s pages from 1939 to 1944.
The six part series is produced in conjunction with the release of Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain book and exhibition and explores British fashion during the war, Lee Miller's contribution to the fashion industry in these years and her significant service to the survival of British Vogue magazine.
Audrey Withers, Lee Miller’s editor at British Vogue, wrote as early as 1941:
‘she [Lee Miller] has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue’s [British Vogue’s] history’.
The series is presented by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller's grandaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives
Guest speakers include: Fashion Historian Amber Butchart, Robin Muir, contributing editor to British Vogue, Hilary Roberts, head curator of photography, Imperial War Museums London, Julie Summers, biographer of Audrey Withers and contemporary fashion and fine art photographer Viviane Sassen.
Produced by Tolly Robinson
Music from DeWolf Music
This series was made possible by public funding awarded by Arts Council England from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund
Podcast content: © Lee Miller Archives, England 2021. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Next Episode
Taster of Episode 3
A taster of the third episode presented by Ami Bouhassane (granddaughter of Lee Miller and Co-Director of her Archives) who in the coming episode speaks with Julie Summer biographer of Audrey Withers (wartime editor of British Vogue) and a historian.
Full Episode to Release on 9th April 2021
Julie Summers is a best selling author and historian. Her most recent pubilcation Dressed for War the biography of Audrey Withers, who became editor of British Vogue during the second World War, is beautifully written and has been optioned by Gaumont TV UK to be developed into a drama series. She has written on several other different aspects of the Second World War with subjects such as evacuees, women on the Home Front and requisitioned country houses. Her book Jambusters,2013 was the inspiration for the drama series 'Home Fires' which ran for in 135 territories worldwide.
More info on series:
Lee Miller’s photography of British fashion for Vogue during World War 2 was prolific yet few are aware of the full extent of this body of her work. Many know Lee Miller’s name in connection to her inspirational World War 2 reportage. Few are aware of the volume of her British fashion images that were published on British Vogue’s pages from 1939 to 1944.
The six part series is produced in conjunction with the release of Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain book and exhibition and explores British fashion during the war, Lee Miller's contribution to the fashion industry in these years and her significant service to the survival of British Vogue magazine.
Audrey Withers, Lee Miller’s editor at British Vogue, wrote as early as 1941:
‘she [Lee Miller] has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue’s [British Vogue’s] history’.
The series is presented by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller's grandaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives
Guest speakers include: Fashion Historian Amber Butchart, Robin Muir, contributing editor to British Vogue, Hilary Roberts, head curator of photography, Imperial War Museums London, Julie Summers, biographer of Audrey Withers and contemporary fashion, Antony Penrose, son of Lee Miller and fine art photographer Viviane Sassen.
Produced by Tolly Robinson
Music from DeWolf Music
This series was made possible by public funding awarded by Arts Council England from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund
Podcast content: © Lee Miller Archives, England 2021. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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