She turned the queen into a peacock. Literally, a peacock. You can see her from a mile away. — Tarsem Singh (image via Wikimedia) Even if you don't know Eiko's name, you know her work — the vampiric capes in Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula"; the dynamic costumes special-made for Julie Taymor's "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" on Broadway; a myriad of artistic creations swirling through the air at Cirque du Soleil; the coterie of crested ballgowns in "Mirror, Mirror," for which she won a posthumous Academy Award.
A Woman to Know: Eiko Ishioka
A Woman to Know: Eiko Ishioka
A Woman to Know: Eiko Ishioka
She turned the queen into a peacock. Literally, a peacock. You can see her from a mile away. — Tarsem Singh (image via Wikimedia) Even if you don't know Eiko's name, you know her work — the vampiric capes in Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula"; the dynamic costumes special-made for Julie Taymor's "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" on Broadway; a myriad of artistic creations swirling through the air at Cirque du Soleil; the coterie of crested ballgowns in "Mirror, Mirror," for which she won a posthumous Academy Award.