Lee Miller

Fashion in Wartime Britain

Ami Bouhassane, Robin Muir, Amber Butchart

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Miscellaneous
01 October 2025

Photographs: collections; Fashion & textiles: design

One hundred photographs explore Lee Miller's prolific fashion photography during World War II.

Lee Miller has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue's history, wrote British Vogue editor Audrey Withers in the summer of 1941. Despite this, much of Miller's fashion photography-which dominated the pages of British Vogue during World World II-has since been forgotten or overshadowed by her subsequent war reportage. Drawn from a research base of nearly four thousand vintage negatives, this collection showcases more than one hundred stunning photographs from the war era, many of which have not been seen since they were first shot and published in the 1940s. Lee Miller's recently transcribed appointment diaries and accompanying text by British Vogue Archives's Robin Muir, fashion historian Amber Butchart, and Miller's granddaughter, Ami Bouhassane, provide a wealth of new information about the artist's prolific wartime fashion portfolio.

AUTHORS: Robin Muir is a writer and curator who specializes in photography. He was formerly a picture editor and contributing editor at British Vogue and the Sunday Times Magazine (UK).

Amber Butchart is a fashion historian and author who specializes in the historical intersections between dress, politics, and culture.

Ami Bouhassane is the granddaughter of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. She is trustee of the Lee Miller Archives and codirector of The Penrose Collection and Farleys House & Gallery.

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Full page fashion images .

Insights from Amber Butchart, curator, writer and broadcaster

9 colour, 134 b/w illustrations

By: Ami Bouhassane, Robin Muir, Amber Butchart
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 287mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 18mm
ISBN: 9780953238989
ISBN 10: 0953238989
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ami Bouhassane, Co-Director of Farleys House & Gallery Ltd, the organisation that manages the Lee Miller Archives and Farleys House, home of her grandparents Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. Author, curator, podcast presenter and lecturer on both Miller and Penrose, Bouhassane has worked extensively with their material for over 25 years. Amber Butchart is a dress historian, author and broadcaster who specialises in the intersections between politics, clothing and culture. She is a former Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London, and is a regular public lecturer across the UK’s leading arts institutions. She researches and presents TV and radio, including A Stitch in Time for BBC Four. 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. He is currently a Contributing Editor to British Vogue.