British Vogue and Lee Miller

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

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