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. 

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I was breezing through Flickr while watching The Fall (again) and found the Flickr Photostream of Adam Howarth, who worked on the film’s special effects and some of the costumes as well. He has a few behind the scenes pictures from the film, including this close up of the love my life, Darwin’s Coat (which, apparently, was made based on the look of a highly magnified butterfly wing).