Betsey Johnson

She has designed for many celebrities including but not limited to: Courtney Love, Sarah McLachlan and Salma Hayek. Dimensions of master box 458x248x569 mm Gross weight of master box 15 kg Net weight of master box 10 kg 20ft container 450 master boxes 40ft container 900 master boxes 40ft HC container 920 master boxes Wagon 1670 master boxes. She continued expanding her line in 2004 with handbags, accessories, hats, scarves and many more. Box/packs 20 Cigarettes (Also: flip top box, soft pack, unit). In 2003, Johnson expanded her line to include shoes, lingerie and jeans. 50 sleeves (10 000 cigarettes) Sleeves 10 boxes (200 cigarettes) (Also: rims, blocks, blister). In 2002 Johnson was inducted into the Fashion Walk of Fame. Also: Master case, Master carton.

Today, there are over forty five of her stores worldwide. The usual description for package unit, used for cigarettes and tobacco products. In 1978 she started her own fashion line, the same year she opened up her first retail store in Soho. The main character, Solid Snake, uses boxes to disguise himself as cargo and become virtually invisible to the enemy. In 1972 she won the Coty award. Perhaps the most well-known boxes in popular culture are from the Metal Gear Solid series of video games. In the 1970s she took control of the fashion label "Alley Cat" which was popular with the rock 'n roll musicians of the day. In the United States, such a device is known as a cup or jock strap.

Edie Sedgwick was her house model, and designed the clothing Sedgwick wore on her last film, Ciao! Manhattan. In Australia the box is also known as a frog. In 1969 she opened up her very own boutique called Betsey Bunki Nini in New York's Upper East Side. In cricket, a box is the plastic shield worn (inside trousers) to protect male players' genitalia when batting. She was part of Andy Warhol's underground scene, along with The Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick and Lou Reed. It was worn on the chatelaine. She became part of the youthquake movement. The étui (or etui) is a cylindrical box or case of very various materials, often of pleasing shape or adornment, for holding sewing materials or small articles of feminine use.

Within a year she was the in-house designer for the Manhattan boutique, Paraphernalia. The powder-box and the patch-box were respectively receptacles for the powder and the patches of the 18th century; the former was the direct ancestor of the puff-box of the modern dressing-table.
Her fashion career started when she entered and won Mademoiselle Guest Editor Contest. In Colonial America the Bible box was built of wood, specifically as a container for a bible, but it often had dual use as a portable desk. She resides in New York but once a week in a month she spends time in her house in Mexico, which she dubbed "Betseyville". It often has a carved or incised lid. She is a survivor of breast cancer and is a breast cancer advocate. The Bible box, usually of the 17th century, but now and again more ancient, probably obtained its name from the fact that it was of a size to hold a large Bible.

She had a daughter, Lulu, in 1975 who now works with Betsey. These graceful receptacles still exist in large numbers; they are often converted into stationery cabinets. They later divorced in 1971. Mahogany and satinwood were the woods most frequently employed, and they were occasionally inlaid with marqueterie or edged with boxwood. In 1967 she married Velvet Underground's John Cale. Occasionally flat-topped boxes, they were most frequently either rod-shaped, or tall and narrow with a sloping tip necessitated by a series of raised veins for exhibiting the handles of knives and the bowls of spoons. After high school, Johnson studied at the Pratt Institute and then later graduated from Syracuse University. Some of the most elegant were the works of Adam, Hepplewhite and Sheraton.

She took many dance classes as a child and adolescent which inspired her love of costumes. The knife-box is one of the most charming of the minor pieces of furniture which we owe to the artistic taste and mechanical ingenuity of the English cabinet-makers of the last quarter of the 18th century. She also is known for doing a cartwheel at the end of her fashion shows. Some of those which have survived, such as that of Sir Thomas Bodley in the Bodleian library, possess locks with an extremely elaborate mechanism contrived in the under-side of the lid. She is a fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Its place has been taken in modern life by the safe. Betsey Johnson (born August 10th, 1942 in Wethersfield, Connecticut). A strong-box is a receptacle for money, deeds and securities.

Shoeboxes have long been cherished for their versatility and are commonly used for many tasks around the house, such as holding trading cards, photos, and just about anything else. It is commonly acquired when one purchases a pair of shoes. A shoebox is, exactly as its name implies, a cardboard box which holds a pair of shoes. It may take a very modest form, covered in leather and lined with satin, or it may reach the monumental proportions of the jewel cabinets which were made for Marie Antoinette, one of which is at Windsor, and another at Versailles, the work of Schwerdfeger as cabinetmaker, Degault as miniature-painter, and Thomire as chaser.

A jewel-box is a receptacle for trinkets, not only jewels. gold box was sold by auction after his death for £ 2000. George, duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), possessed an important collection; a Louis XV. Now that the snuffbox is no longer used it is collected by wealthy amateurs or deposited in museums, and especially artistic examples command large sums.

Rundell and Bridge, the court jewellers, were paid £ 8205 for snuff-boxes for foreign ministers. At the coronation of George IV of England, Messrs. To be invited to take a pinch from a monarchs snuff-box was a distinction almost equivalent to having one's ear pulled by Napoleon. It is, indeed, to the cessation of the habit of snuff-taking that we may trace much of modern lavishness in the distribution of decorations.

After snuff-taking had ceased to be general it lingered for some time among diplomats, either because as Talleyrand explained they found a ceremonious pinch to be a useful aid to reflection in a business interview, or because monarchs retained the habit of bestowing snuff-boxes upon ambassadors and other intermediaries, who could not well be honored in any other way. Costly gold boxes were often enriched with enamels or set with diamonds or other precious stones, and sometimes the lid was adorned with a portrait, a classical vignette, or a tiny portrait miniature, often some choice work by an old master. Mother-of-pearl was also used, together with silver, in its natural state or gilded. Tortoise-shell was a favorite, and owing to its limpid lustre it was exceedingly effective.

From the cheapest wood that was suitable at one time - potato-pulp was extensively used - to a frame of gold encased with diamonds, a great variety of materials was employed. The jeweller, the enameller and the artist bestowed infinite pains upon what was quite as often a delicate bijou as a piece of utility; fops and great personages possessed numbers of snuff-boxes, rich and more ordinary, their selection being regulated by their dress and by the relative splendour of the occasion. It long survived his sword, and was in frequent use until nearly the middle of the 19th century. The snuff-box, which is now little more than a charming relic of a disagreeable practice, was throughout the larger part of the 18th century the indispensable companion of every man of birth and breeding.

But it is as a receptacle for snuff that the box has taken its most distinguished and artistic forms in Western culture. These boxes are ordinarily portable, but sometimes form the top of a table. In the 18th century no lady was without her work-box, and, especially in the second half of that period, much taste and elaborate pains were expended upon the case, which was often exceedingly dainty and elegant. The date of its introduction is in considerable doubt, but 17th-century examples have come down to us, with covers of silk, stitched with beads and adorned with embroidery.

It is usually fitted with a tray divided into many small compartments, for needles, reels of silk and cotton and other necessaries of stitchery. Of the boxes which possess some attraction beyond their immediate purpose the feminine work-box is the most common. . Its uses are innumerable, and the name, preceded by a qualifying adjective, has been given to many objects of artistic or antiquarian interest.

Whatever its shape or purpose or the material of which it is fashioned, it is the direct descendant of the chest, one of the most ancient articles of domestic furniture. A box normally may be opened by raising, sliding or removing the lid, which may be hinged and/or fastened by a catch, hasp, or lock. Nevertheless, a box may have a horizontal cross-section that is square, elongated, round or oval; sloped or domed top surfaces, or non-vertical sides. When no shape is described, a typical cuboid box may be expected.

Boxes are highly variable receptacles.