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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...
Miyake has the strongest kind of signature, emphatic but often elusive, in ( part because he gives his associates a lot of lead. Eiko Ishioka, a gifted art director and one of Miyake's oldest friends, says that "when he was young, Issey lacked confidence and experience, and he could not control his emotional reactions or talent. His staff did not want to be slaves, they wanted to be equals, so he had to change his character...
...sometimes to just go rest and not get ideas," he says stoutly, but, Ishioka insists, "he cannot stay in one place for more than three days." Figuratively, at least, that is just as well. In May he lived out a long-cherished goal and traveled the southwestern United States by car, and he is now dreaming of further voyages. To Buenos Aires in November; to Tahiti for the new year. "Make me a plan for my trip," he will ask friends who have covered the same territory. "I'll go anywhere," he adds, although there is no mistaking that. "Where...
Occidental moviemakers perceive her as a fashion photographer (Eyes of Laura Mars) or a ratings-mad television executive (Network). But Tokyo Art Director Eiko Ishioka, casting around for a Japanese TV commercial, saw in Faye Dunaway something of Kannon Bosatsu, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. Rigged in sail-like goddess attire, the inscrutable pitchperson has no lines, but she kisses and caresses two tiny girls in a fetching commercial for a chain of boutiques, galleries and theaters that airs next month...