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Artist Eiko Ishioka's stylized, otherworldly scenery for Paul Schrader's film Mishima was remarkable, a sort of reductivist baroque that seemed peculiarly Japanese. Despite the dazzling sets, critics generally found the movie a failure. Design, it turns out, cannot do everything. --By Kurt Andersen
...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...
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...
...Designer Ishioka takes no pleasure in being noted as the first woman to have achieved all she has achieved. Says she: "I hated it, and I still hate it." She is not only a woman in a man's world, she is an assertive feminist to boot. Her advertising posters and TV ads for a chain of clothing shops feature an undressed woman and the aggressively quixotic slogan: DON'T STARE AT THE NUDE; BE NAKED...
...Ishioka's East-West ambivalence is palpable. Although she decamped to work in New York City in 1980 (and "did nothing," she says), Ishioka returned to Tokyo after two years; then her interest shifted to U.S. and European projects. There was the Mishima movie and a Miles Davis album cover, and now she is at work on sets for M. Butterfly, a Broadway play, and for a Philip Glass opera to be produced in New York. "In the '80s," she says, "I would like to cause a commotion outside Japan...