Her father was worried that Eiko Ishioka would be eaten alive by the Japanese design world of the 1960s. He should perhaps have feared for the industry. The Academy Award--winning designer (for the costumes in 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula), who was 73 when she died Jan. 21, shot like a flare through the worlds of art direction, graphic art and costume design. After starting her own ad agency in Japan in the '70s, she moved to the U.S. and began to work on movies and stage shows. Her signature look was fierce, structured, color-saturated eroticism: high ribbed collars, sinewy coats of...
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