Eiko Ishioka was a graphic, costume, and set designer. She was born July 12, 1938 in Tokyo, Japan. Growing up, her life always fused western and Japanese culture. She graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1960 and immediately started working for the largest cosmetic company in Japan, Shiseido. There she revolutionized the poster with her bold use of diverse models and progressive feminist messages that defied tradition. Ishioka later worked as a creative director for the department store Parco, producing iconic posters and television ads that broke with tradition and showed no products. In 1983, Ishioka left Parco and opened her own design studio. Once in her own practice, Eiko experimented more and more with surrealism as she moved into designing sets and costumes for film and theater. She won awards for her work on Mishima (1985) and Madame Butterfly (1988). Ishioka would go on to win the 1993 Academy Award for Best Costume Design (along with multiple other awards) for her incredible costume designs for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. It was Ishioka’s life work to push up against tradition. The result is a stunning body of work worthy of inclusion in the design history canon.TIMELINE1938 –  b. Tokyo, Japan1961 –  graduated Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music1970 –  founded own firm1970 –  ūman ribu movement1980 –  moved to New York1983 –  published her own book Eiko by Eiko1985 –  Equal Opportunity Law passed in Japan; Mishima releases featuring set designs from Ishioka, for which she wins the Award for Artistic Contribution at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.1992 –  Bram Stoker's Dracula1993 –  Ishioka’s costume designs on Dracula win her the Academy Award for Best Costume Design2002 –  Designs sports uniforms for the 2002 Olympics2008 –  Designs the opening ceremony costume designs for the Beijing Olympics 2010 –  Costume Designs for Broadway Musical, “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark”2012 –  d. Age 73 in Tokyo, Japan from pancreatic cancerREFERENCESAssociated Press. (2012, January 26). Costume designer Eiko Ishioka, recently known for Broadway’s “Spider-Man,” has died at 73. Washington Post. https://web.archive.org/web/20120205143125/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater-dance/costume-designer-eiko-ishioka-recently-known-for-broadways-spider-man-has-died-at-73/2012/01/26/gIQAyZhgTQ_story.htmlDalí Paris. (n.d). Dalí and fashion. Dalí Paris. Retrieved 25 May 2021 from https://www.daliparis.com/en/salvador-dali-en/dali-fashion/Edwards, L. N. (1988). Equal Employment Opportunity in Japan: A View from the West. ILR Review, 41(2), 240–250. https://doi.org/10.1177/001979398804100206Eiko Ishioka. (1992). ADC Global. http://adcglobal.org/hall-of-fame/eiko-ishioka/Eiko Ishioka. (n.d.). A SEARCH HISTORY. https://asearchhistory.weebly.com/eiko-ishioka.htmlFox, M. (1984, March 1). An Interview with Eiko Ishioka, by Ingrid Sischy. Artforum International. https://www.artforum.com/print/198403/an-interview-with-eiko-ishioka-by-ingrid-sischy-35403Fox, M. (2012, January 27). Eiko Ishioka, Costumer of the Surreal, Dies at 73. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/eiko-ishioka-designer-dies-at-73.htmlFusek, A. P. (2021, February 27). The Feminist Movement in Japan: WWII to the 1970s. Unseen Japan. https://unseenjapan.com/feminist-movement-japan-wwii-1970s/Goodall, H. (2013, January 3). Origins and influence of surrealism in Japanese art. Unframed. Retrieved 25 May 2021 from https://unframed.lacma.org/2013/01/03/origins-and-influence-of-surrealism-in-japanese-artGraphic Liberation of Gender: Eiko Ishioka Poster ExhibitionThe Japan Foundation, Toronto. (2017, September 6). Japan Foundation. https://jftor.org/event/eiko-ishioka-poster-exhibition/2017-09-06/Haley, M. (n.d.). Sneak Peek: Eiko Ishioka Papers at UCLA Library Special Collections. LA Collective. https://laacollective.org/work/eiko-ishiokaHooks, R. (2018). Surrealis