As Kate Winslet’s “Lee” heads to theaters, Vogue revisits Lee Miller’s career in British Vogue under Second World War editor Audrey Withers.
When, in 1945, after six long years, the Second World War ended and peace came at last, British Vogue had acquired a gravity unexpected when the conflict came about. This was chiefly thanks to two women from very different backgrounds and of very different temperaments, one British and one American, who found enough common ground to propel Vogue into the modern age. Their story is told in Lee, out this Friday.
Just how useful a tool Vogue could be is shown by a plan hatched by Ernest Bevin, minister of labor and national service. He was shocked at the statistics on accidents caused by the long hair of women new to factory work. Government circulars had no effect, so Bevin instructed Withers to decree that long hair was unfashionable. The equitable editor found imposing this taboo doubtful—not least because Vogue had been advocating long, Veronica Lake-like hairstyles—but of course she complied.
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