Having recently acquired rights to the 4K restoration of Tarsem Singh’s The Fall (2006), featuring some truly spectacular costume designs by the late Eiko Ishioka (石岡 瑛子 1938-2012), film distributor MUBI has put together this short but nonetheless most impressive portfolio clip of the costume designer’s considerable contributions to film. Check it out below –

I’m a really big fan of Eiko Ishioka’s work, especially her costume designs for Francis Ford Coppola 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

I highly recommend checking out Eiko Ishioka : Blood, Sweat, And Tears – A Life Of Design, the the official catalogue for the retrospective exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo from Nov 2020 – Feb 2021. Check out some of the pages from the book below –

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There is also a more recent exhibition of her work been held at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum Of Art titled ‘I-Design’ ( 石岡瑛子Ｉデザイン ) from September to December 2024, and it also comes with an art catalogue. I hope to pick up in the near future for a review as well, even though I suspect the contents will have a fair amount of overlap with the one for Blood, Sweat, And Tears.

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