The first female in the world to receive the prestigious D&AD President’s Award for her outstanding contribution to Advertising.
 
The first female in the UK to be featured in the D&AD Masterclass Art Direction book, which showcased advertising’s greatest Art Directors of all time.
 
The only creative (and female) ever appointed as Executive Creative Director reporting directly to Charles Saatchi on the iconic Silk Cut brand.
 
The first female to be both nominated and win a silver D&AD pencil in the same year, for ‘Best Art Direction’, was elected three times onto the D&AD Executive Board, was awarded seven silver D&AD pencils, nine silver nominations and won over 250 wooden pencils in the D&AD Annual, including countless awards at Cannes, and has sat on a record-breaking number of juries worldwide.
 
The first female (and creative) to be appointed by the late luminary Paul Arden, during his reign at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, to succeed him as ‘Head of Art,’ and the first female in advertising to be nominated as a Director at D&AD, alongside the renowned film director Jonathan Glazer.
 
The first female to be exclusively spotlighted in ‘Archive’ magazine - unveiled with the launch on the eve of the Cannes Advertising Festival.
 
The first documentary on women in advertising, ‘Mad Women’ by Channel 4, celebrated Alexandra as a pioneer for rising to the top in a massively male-dominated industry.