Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain by Ami Bouhassane

Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain

Ami Bouhassane, Robin Muir, Amber Butchart

Lee Miller Archives Publishing · Hardcover · November 25, 2025

Many know Lee Miller’s name in connection to her inspirational World War 2 reportage.

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Who it’s for
Lee Miller’s wartime fashion for British Vogue, with images and essays on the period.
Genres
Fashion Photography, Photographer Monographs, Fashion & Accessories
Published
Lee Miller Archives Publishing, November 25, 2025

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About this book

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. This beautiful book of her wartime fashion work addresses Lee Miller’s contribution to the fashion industry in these years and her significant service to the survival of British Vogue magazine.

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Audrey Withers, Lee Miller’s editor at British Vogue, in 1941 wrote ‘she [Lee Miller] has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue’s [British Vogue’s] history’. Containing over 130 images, with the majority printed full page this book also contains accompanying text by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller’s granddaughter and Co-Director of the Lee Miller Archives, who provides insights into Lee Miller’s work process. In two additional essays, fashion historian Amber Butchart writes on the fashion of the period and Robin Muir, contributing editor to British Vogue, discusses Lee Miller’s work for Vogue.

Wartime Vogue Fashion

Lee Miller’s wartime fashion for British Vogue, with images and essays on the period.

Come here for

  • Lee Miller’s British Vogue fashion images, published from 1939 to 1944

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  • Ami Bouhassane’s insights into Miller’s work process
  • Essays on period fashion and Miller’s work for Vogue

Where it sits

Fashion Photography72%
Photographer Monographs41%
Fashion & Accessories23%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • 20th-Century Britain
  • Fashion Photography
  • Photography Writing
Authors
Ami Bouhassane, Robin Muir, Amber Butchart
Publisher
Lee Miller Archives Publishing
Published
November 25, 2025
Format
Hardcover
Reading lane
20th-Century Britain