21 in Tokyo, said Tracy Roberts, her studio manager. Ishioka, 73, a longtime New York City resident whose convention-defying, award-winning career expanded in the 1980s to include design work for Broadway and the movies, died of pancreatic cancer Jan. In a longer commercial, actress Faye Dunaway wearing black against a black background, silently gazes at the camera as she slowly peels a hard-boiled egg and then starts eating it as the camera moves in for a close-up. Then a voice-over says: “Life is short, the night is long.” In one 15-second spot, a silver-haired British rake nonchalantly tosses his champagne glass overboard and makes his move on a dainty young Japanese woman. As Japan’s preeminent graphic designer and art director in the 1970s and early ‘80s, Eiko Ishioka helped build her reputation by heading media campaigns for Parco, a major boutique shopping complex chain.īut instead of focusing on fashion or other merchandise in ads, promotional posters and commercials, Ishioka sold Parco to the public with attention-grabbing, often sensual visual images.
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