![A deliberate marriage of East and West — she had lived in Manhattan for many years — [her aesthetic] simultaneously embraced the gothic, the otherworldly, the dramatic and the unsettling and was suffused with a powerful, dark eroticism. Her work, whose outsize stylization dazzled some critics and discomforted others, was provocative in every possible sense of the word, and it was meant to be.
Rest in Peace to the creator of some of the most amazing costumes in the history of the planet, Eiko Ishioka.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfmiiWPfh1qzcdwso1_500.jpg)
A deliberate marriage of East and West — she had lived in Manhattan for many years — [her aesthetic] simultaneously embraced the gothic, the otherworldly, the dramatic and the unsettling and was suffused with a powerful, dark eroticism. Her work, whose outsize stylization dazzled some critics and discomforted others, was provocative in every possible sense of the word, and it was meant to be.
Rest in Peace to the creator of some of the most amazing costumes in the history of the planet, Eiko Ishioka.
