Eiko Ishioka was a Japanese designer, famous for her outlandish and surreal designs which gave her global renown despite having to make her name...
With her costumes, Eiko Ishioka expresses, externally, the character’s inner world. For the first issue of 200%, I interviewed Eiko Ishioka in Alicante where she was working on the costume designs for ‘Teresa’, a film based on Teresa de Avila, a Spanish nun who lived in the 16th century and an important religious reformer. The […]
Ishioka collaborated in the films Closet Land, The Cell, The Fall, Mirror Mirror, and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (1992), which won her the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
Eiko Ishioka was a Japanese designer, famous for her outlandish and surreal designs which gave her global renown despite having to make her name...
When Francis Ford Coppola was told he wasn’t going to receive the budget he wanted for the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, he infamously declared, “The costumes will be the set.” Enter Eiko Ishioka…
When Francis Ford Coppola was told he wasn’t going to receive the budget he wanted for the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, he infamously declared, “The costumes will be the set.” Enter Eiko Ishioka…
BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA costumes appreciation: ― Lucy Westenra’s wedding gown (costume design by Eiko Ishioka)
Eiko Ishioka , a designer who brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film and theater, album covers, the Olympics and Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy and a string of other honors, died on Saturday in Tokyo. She was 73. The cause was pancreatic cancer , her studio…
