Barbara Miura was a prominent fashion model working in London during the early-to-mid 1950s. She appears in editorial and catalogue photography of the period, modeling couture and ready-to-wear for magazines and advertisers.
Her work includes photographs by noted fashion photographers such as John French (images for Harper’s Bazaar and commercial shoots) and credited studio shots attributed to photographers of Vogue and other British titles. Several surviving prints show her wearing Christian Dior, Ceil Chapman and other couture of the time.
Through these portraits, Barbara Miura embodies the grace and poise that defined London’s fashion scene in the 1950s — timeless, refined, and effortlessly glamorous.
Barbara Miura in white tulle dress with a flounced bertha, flounced stiffened skirt, and silver embroidery on hips and bosom by Arthur Banks, photo by Richard Dormer, Harper’s Bazaar UK, December 1950
Barbara Miura in town/country suit in fine smooth, worsted whipcord at Harvey Nichols, Harper’s Bazaar UK, February 1950
Barbara Miura wearing a navy wool suit under a cafe-au-lait surah coat by Christian Dior, photo by Norman Parkinson, Vogue, Paris, April 1950
Barbara Miura wearing a satin gown shaped with gold and silver lamé leaves by Christian Dior, photo by Skilford, Vogue, Paris, October 1950
Barbara Miura wearing a white satin gown lightly embroidered with pearly sequins and adorned with feathers covered with a pleated tulle cape by Maggy Rouff, photo by Norman Parkinson, Vogue, Paris, April 1950
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