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...vanished" the Statue of Liberty (though we suspect he just got it to duck underwater). Now Vegas megamagician David Copperfield attempts his most astounding feat: filling a Broadway theater with skeptical New Yorkers paying up to $67.50 a seat, drinks not included. Aided by playwright David Ives, designer Eiko Ishioka and creative adviser Francis Ford Coppola, Copperfield will present his outsize illusions in 76 shows starting Nov. 26 at the Martin Beck Theater. One secret he won't reveal: how he got Claudia Schiffer to be his girlfriend...
...capital, picture researcher Eiko Reed organized the photo coverage, and researchers Hiroko Tashiro and Satsuki Oba interviewed seismologists, engineers and politicians to assess the impact of the quake...
...shops and artisans -- never publicly identified -- that may be called on to provide such ceremonial artifacts as gowns and symbolic wedding swords. Nor did pictures for the story come easily. Directing our coverage, which involved a lot of waiting outside the Owada family home, was Tokyo photo editor Eiko Reed...
Graphic and Stage Set Designer Eiko Ishioka, who has also worked in the U.S., is just as sanguine about the creative boom: "Japanese design is more flourishing and diverse than ever before." At no time in the roughly 130 years that Japan has traded with the West have its applied arts been so influential abroad. "I've lived with Asian influence all my life," says Eugene Kupper, an architect and UCLA professor, but "today Japan is in the forefront. It's the most exciting it has ever been." While tradition clearly informs some of the best new Japanese design...
Outside of architecture, the issue of tradition is not so pressing. Indeed, designers of graphics and interiors are more unselfconsciously ahistorical, often out-Westernizing the West in seeking novelty for its own sake. "If we steeped ourselves in tradition, we would not be able to create anything," says Eiko Ishioka...