Alex Box - Makeup Artist

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A ground-breaking make-up artist with a strong alternative voice.

For her degree show at the Chelsea College of Art, Alex Box exhibited installation art exploring the relationship between the body and the environment. Later, her make-up went on to explore this relationship between art, science, nature and the magical.

Alex has since become one of the most influential make-up artists of our time. She creates looks for designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, McQ, Peter Jensen and Gareth Pugh. She was also the lead artist at 2007’s Fashion Rocks event.

Alex’s work has featured in Vogue in Italy, France, Japan, China and Britain. Her work is also regularly seen in titles including Numero, W, Another Magazine, Dazed & Confused, 10 and i-D.

(Source: vogue.co.uk and illamasqua.com)

She has created such a beautiful, and interesting, range of looks:

Source: First row: i-D Spring 2010 cover scanned by fearless123; Vogue China June 2010 scanned by 212 @ Modernparty.cn/bbs; Vogue Nippon August 2010 scanned by MAGstyle. Second row: Alex Box by Rankin (via dandvmanagement.com)

 

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Vogue Nippon August 2010
"The Face of Beauty"
Model: Patricia van der Vliet
Photographer: Jem Mitchell
Stylist: Jamie Surman
Hair: Alain Pichon
Makeup: Alex Box
Manicure: Adam Slee



Source: Scanned by MAGstyle

 

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Vogue China June 2010
"High Knots Classroom"
Model: Fei Fei Sun
Photographer: Jem Mitchell
Stylist: Jamie Surman
Hair: Alain Pichon
Makeup: Alex Box




Source: Scanned by 212 @ Modernparty.cn/bbs (via Aja Mok)

 

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Vogue Nippon March 2010
"Pale Wind"
Model: Katrin Thormann
Photographer: Jem Mitchell
Stylist: Jamie Surman
Hair: Neil Moodie
Makeup: Alex Box



Source: gaiawu.com/zasshiko | IMGmodels.com / imgmodelsblog.wordpress.com (via candlebougie)

 

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i-D Spring 2010
"A Tribute: Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE"
Model: Sasha Pivovarova
Photographer: Emma Summerton
Stylist: Edward Enninful
Hair: Sam McKnight
Makeup: Alex Box
Manicure: Marian Newman



Source: Scanned by fearless123

 

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Vogue Italia February 2010
"Bohemian Way"
Model: Sasha Pivovarova
Photographer: Emma Summerton
Stylist: Edward Enninful
Hair: Sam McKnight
Makeup: Alex Box
Manicure: Marian Newman



Source: Scanned by Diciassette (17)

 

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Dazed & Confused February 2010
"A Balletic Performance Showcases Spring Fashion's Raw Edges and Powdery Textures"
Model: Ranya Mordanova
Photographer: Ben Toms
Stylist: Katie Shillingford
Hair: Gareth Van Cuylenburg
Makeup: Alex Box





Source: Scanned by a.t.

 

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i-D June 2008
"It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To"
Model: Magdalena Frackowiak
Photographers: Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones
Stylist: Haidee Findlay-Levin
Hair: Eugene Souleiman
Makeup: Alex Box



Source: Scanned by flyingace

 

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Vogue Italia May 2010
"Love is in the Hair"
Model: Sasha Pivovarova
Photographer: Emma Summerton
Stylist: Edward Enninful
Hair: Sam McKnight
Makeup: Alex Box
Manicure: Marian Newman



Source: Scanned by sobigsobig

 

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Numéro 98 November 2008
"Vénéneuse"
Model: Anne Vyalitsyna
Photographers: Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones
Stylist: Franck Benhamou
Hair: Neil Moodie
Makeup: Alex Box
Manicure: Sophy Robson





Source: Scanned by flyingace

 

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Vogue Nippon September 2004
"Checkmate"
Model: Eugenia Volodina
Photographer: Paolo Roversi
Stylist: Joanne Blades
Hair: Malcolm Edwards
Makeup: Alex Box




Source: Scanned by a.t.

 

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wow she is amazing

 

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Illamasqua "The Art of Darkness" Fall/Winter 2010
Photographer: Tim Bret Day
Makeup: Alex Box
Hair: Martin Cullen
Manicure: Mike Pocock

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Left to Right: Jester, Androgyny, Androgyny (close-up), The Dark Angel, and The Queen of the Gypsies


L to R: Wolfen, Faerie, Wanton Woman, King Arthur, and The Looking Glass (Ceremonia)


L to R: Queen of the Gypsies, Ceremonia, and Molok


Information on the inspiration for some of the characters, collection, and the behind the scenes scoop can be found at the official Illamasqua blog (address given below).

Source: illamasqua.com and illamasqua.blogspot.com

 

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i-D Pre-Fall 2010
"Then, Now, Next"
Alex Box by Nick Knight




Alex, at work, at a recent "The Art of Darkness" preview event for beauty bloggers:

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Source: illamasqua.blogspot.com

 

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10 Magazine Spring 2009
"Christopher Kane: Dinosaurs and Marabou Trim"
Model: Anya Kazakova
Photographer: Martina Hoogland Ivanow
Stylist: Hector Castro
Hair: James Rowe
Makeup: Alex Box





Source: Scanned by flyingace

 

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UK Harper's Bazaar September 2009
"Paris, Je T'aime"
Model: Emmanuelle Seigner
Photographer: Dusan Reljin
Stylist: Antje Winter
Hair: James Rowe
Makeup: Alex Box




Source: Scanned by glósóli (via idsetters.com)

 

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UK Harper's Bazaar October 2009
"Whole Lotta Rosie"
Model: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Photographer: Dusan Reljin
Stylist: Antje Winter
Hair: James Rowe
Makeup: Alex Box



Source: Scanned by fearless123

 

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vogue british march 2009
"black & white"
ph. nick knight
model: anja rubik

source: smile​

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numero march 2009
"couture"
ph. karl lagerfeld
model: heidi mount

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[iclawhands]

So talented. And I love her skull-hand hairclips!