Alexis Knox: April 2011

Press days

WWWAAAAY off me and Aaaron go to press days!

I got a PERM!!!!

I got treated to a brand new perm and cut by the amazing guys at Vidal Sassoon

Ever since i laid my eyes on Carrie Bradshaws barnet back.in.the.day i craved a perm... after two failed trips, in two weeks, to my mates studying beauty at the local polytech college i gave up...

10 years later the magic happened! CURLY WURLY!

I must have something in my eye....

One day I went a bit Menswear crazeeeeed and decided to plan 3 shoots in one day, it was a marathon but it was worth it! To start I shot with photogrpaher Mark Cant http://markcant.com/, who i love and work with regularly...

The first theme of the styling was Chav Chic and the model really got into the swing of the theme...charmed...

Heres how it turned out....

The super amazing beauty team got me through the day with Debbie on makeup and Josh on hair!

In the evening we trundled off to shoot with the amazing Damien Fry , a Boy London meets Buffallo style shoot....

Giving the models knee some extra attention....

Joshs magic handsss

Notice whats on Joshs Ipad?!

xXx

Matrix L'Oreal hair show

I took a trip to Manchester to style a hair show for L'Oreal brand Matrix, it involved white and alotta shoes!

And even more hair dryers!

NOTION MAGAZINE IS 50!

And to celebrate ofcourse we threw a shin dig! Here are a few of my favourite pics taken in the photo booth of our sexy guests!

Our DJ booth was designed to look like a giant cake!
Embarrassingly not made of sponge , judging by the paper cuts on my mouth.....

But we did have cake! And of course Mr Random Bangle sussed it out pronto!

Yes we love love .x.

My fashion crew!!!!

The ever glamorous Munroe

A couple of my boyfriends....

And a couple more...!

Behind the scenes of Surrealist

EEEE remember that Surrealist shoot i was banging on about earlier - well here are some behind the scene shots from the very gorge house we shot it in....

Legs a kimbo!

The super sexy and talented make up artist Adam Burrell twirling his sticks for us.

So totally my new office...

Sano Salon

So Ive mentioned mini Knox , the other half to Sisters Knox which is my Sister Katie, fresh outta Oxford and straight into London life where she is now working at the amazing new salon in Islington... Sano

Here she is rocking the KTZ

Sano was opened last month by established session hair stylist Takashi Sano.

My sister met him whilst assisting session stylist and now stylist at Sano, Josh Goodwin http://joshgoodwin.co.uk/

Sano through the eye of my Iphone!This was the very end of the opening party when Katie was trying to shift us riff raff out ;)
But what did i spy on my way out in the magazine rack??? --- NOTION waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!!!

http://www.sanohair.com/index.html

Luke Worral cover shoot

For the cover of the latest Hipster Handbook I styled my favourite male model Luke Worrall again along with model Sophie Willing. The models were styled in Galliano ( pre scandle!) along with costume pieces to make Luke look like ( whatta mouth full) a lost prince , i think my description to Liam the Art Director was " think Prince Zelda meets The Lost Boys!"

I was very organised and had the time to put all the outfits together before i got to the shoot! A real pleasure!

To see the full shoot and read the full interview with Luke please check it out here:

http://notionmag.com/issue-archive/view/hipsters-handbook-volume-8

Day out!

So me and my assistant Jay decided to culture ourselves for the day and took at trip to the ICA to hear a talk by Sue Tillie who was muse to Lucien Freud and best friend to Leigh Bowery. If you are not familiar with Leigh Bowery he was a prominent performance artist on the London club scene in the 80s.He used himself as his canvas to create extreme 'dress up' art work and his legacy lives on inspiring many club kids,designers and artists of today.

Above is Sue Tilly! So once the ICA was all wrapped up I mentioned to Jay I had never been to the Trocadero-to which she rolled her eyes,grabbed my hand and off we went with a pocket full of change!

As you can see i spent a lot of time there with my mouth wide open.....

Tshirt - Horace >>> Laced up leggings - Kokon To Zai >>> Pumps - Prada

Then we hit China Town as i love shopping for plastic crappy things there .

I made Jay model this hat for my entertainment.....

looks a bit like an ex.....

I have no words to say in my disappointment....

Jay and I then tootled off to 'Ripplys Believe it or NOT!!!!!!!' in Leicester Square, which is major... full or mentle freaky things like this whirl wind rave tunnel... that we went through 8 times....

I LUVED IT.