Eiko Ishioka's development career

Ghostly but elegant: Eiko Ishioka's distinctive film costume design bjork's MV has always been unique and creative. Cocoon is a famous costume with her and Japan as the background.

Very avant-garde and bold MV by designer EikoIshioka (Eiko Ishioka). Bjork performed naked in the MV. Of course, it is also possible that it is not her own body, but the body made of CG is placed on her head. But in any case, bjork, an artist who "devotes himself" to the whole visual effect of the MV, can't do it for everyone, especially without any beautification effect. EikoIshioka (Eiko Ishioka), the director of MV, was born in Tokyo and started his career as a professional art designer after finishing his studies at Tokyo National University of Arts and Music. She first engaged in advertising and printing art design, and then gradually began to design clothes for plays and movies. Later, she went to new york and 1982 held a solo exhibition in the Japanese community in new york. It was in this exhibition that she met NicholasCallaway, the owner of CallawayEdition, the publisher. The latter appreciated her works very much and proposed to publish her collection of works, which became EIkoByEiko. The publication of this book can be said to have brought great opportunities to EikoIshioka's career. After reading this book, director PaulSchrader took the initiative to find her and asked her to be a ProductionDesigner for her new film "Three Islands", that is, the designer responsible for the film's clothing and background effects. Mishima is a film about Japanese writer Yokoshima who committed suicide by caesarean section. PaulSchrader actually spent a lot of energy and time creating this film. So he can give a film that he values so much to EikoIshioka, who is not even familiar with movies. As you can imagine, he has great confidence in her ability. Of course, EikoIshioka, as a Japanese cultural background, is obviously an important factor in making such a choice. 1985, her outstanding performance in this film won her the favor of Cannes. Since then, her design direction has turned to film costume design. Since then, she has won numerous awards, including a Grammy Award for artistic design of David Myers' album Tu Tu in fats waller.

After that, EikoIshioka became the fashion designer of Coppola's vampire-themed movie Dracula. When she was watching "Amazing 400 Years", she was curious about the creativity of fashion designer Qili. The costumes in the movie completely sublimate the characters and the plot, so that the biggest impression this movie gives her now is the big red robe of the vampire count. EikoIshioka seems to be very good at using contrasting colors. Red, white and black are all her favorite colors. Not only is the color bold, but the costume design is also very avant-garde and dramatic, which has left a deep impression on people. Because the designer herself is a person with distinct personality, she insists on her own opinions and does not change her point of view easily, which may also be the display of her angular personality in her works.

EikoIshioka is a very shrewd fashion designer. For a designer, the biggest challenge and achievement lies in being able to create a unique personal style, an ability that everyone can guess at a glance. At this point, Ishioka's shrewdness and cleverness are unmatched by ordinary film and fashion designers. What makes her special is that every film, stage work or MV work she participates in is carefully selected. Not only does the film choose her, but she also chooses the film. If we look at all the films she participated in, it is not difficult to find that these films are very similar in subject matter and even have many similarities in shooting methods. She obviously has a soft spot for fairy tales and science fiction movies. Because the theme of this film is the most inclusive to the diversity and creativity of fashion design. If she is asked to design clothes for a modern life film, the limitations of her own era and theme will limit the designer's imagination, not to mention any creativity and breakthrough. So this is why she thinks she has been exploring the film space that can fully show her personal design style. And every film that Ishioka participated in was branded with her personal style in a unified and profound way.

Ishioka's works cover a wide range, including photography, movies, music videos, fashion design, advertisements and print media. She even designed performance costumes for Cirquedesole, which can be said to make the costumes of this circus as dazzling as its name.