Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer. She will be remembered for creating the outfits for numerous stage and screen productions. Raised in Tokyo, she developed artistic ambitions early and against her family's advice followed her father into graphic design at a time when the field was essentially men-only. After her 1961 graduation from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music she landed an advertising job with the cosmetics company Shiseida and later started her own firm where she began attracting notice with her campaigns for the shopping boutique chain Parco which, among other things, featured nude models. Eiko gradually started producing theatrical costumes and in 1985 was honoured at Cannes for "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters"; she captured a Grammy Award for the cover design of Miles Davis' 1986 album "Tutu", earned two Tony Award nominations for Broadway's 1988 "M. Butterfly", and took home an Oscar for Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Eiko costumed all of Tarsum Singh's films including 2000's "The Cell" for which she put Jennifer Lopez in a head piece resembling a torture device and "The Fall" (2006). She outfitted Dutch Opera's 1999 production of Wagner's "Ring Cycle", dressed several of the teams for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, and designed the opening ceremony for the 2008 Peking Summer Olympiad. Her projects included such diverse offerings as Cirque du Soleil's 2003 "Varekai", Grace Jones' 2006 "Hurricane" tour, and the 2011 Broadway play "Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark". Dividing her time between Tokyo and Manhattan for many years she was named to the New York Art Director's Hall of Fame in 1992. At her death from pancreatic cancer two of her books, "Eiko by Eiko" (1983) and the 2000 "Eiko on Stage", were in print, her work was on display in several major venues including New York's Museum of Modern Art, "Spider Man" was still running on the Great White Way, and her final project for Singh, the Snow White-themed "Mirror, Mirror" starring Julia Roberts, was pending release.