Alex box born

  • Finely printed colour images of Rankin's collaboration with make-up artist Alex Box. INSCRIBED in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Enjoy the book!
  • Alex Box is the former creative director of cosmetics brand Illamasqua and one of the makeup industry's most creative artists.
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    ALEX BOX IS A BRITISH MAKE UP ARTIST WHO REDEFINED THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN MAKEUP

    Alex Box, pseudonym of Alexandra Edmonds, was born in England in a small fishing village. With her eccentric and creative personality, she immediately understood that she wanted to experiment with colours and shapes. She moved to London to study art at the Chelsea College of Art.

    Her studies allowed her to create installations and get in touch with the London creative scene, thanks to which she refined her skills and reworked the concept of face manipulation.

    THE EMOTIONAL MAKE UP

    For Alex Box, doing make-up is equivalent to painting a picture, except that – as she has repeatedly stated – she works with a living canvas. Her make-up becomes a real installation. The style of her creations is strongly influenced by pictorial art, fairy tales, folklore and is driven by emotions.

    She is called “the pioneer of emotional makeup”. In fact, her innovative and multidimensional approa

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    LSU Athletes On Fields of Valor

    Simeon A. “Alex” Box

    1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army

    Athlete, Scholar and Soldier

    Alex Box was an outstanding LSU athlete whose wartime gallantry would earn him the Distinguished Service Cross but ultimately cost him his life.

    Simeon A. "Alex" Box was from Quitman, Mississippi. A naturally begåvad athlete, he was all-state in high school football and state champion in track. He also played on a semi-pro baseball team before accepting a football scholarship from Louisiana State University in 1938.

    A handsome and popular figure on campus, låda majored in petroleum engineering. He played wingback on the football team, but the dislocation of his shoulder in a game against Holy Cross in 1939 ended his football career. Turning to baseball in his sophomore and senior years, he played right field and batted in the cleanup position.

    kartong graduated in 1942 and entered the U.S. Army. While at LSU, Alex met Earle Hubert, and they inten

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    Adrian Harrington Rare Books

    Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.

    Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.

    Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.

    We are always interested in buying quality