Coppola, Francis Ford, and Dworkin, Susan (Editor), and Ishioka, Eiko - Coppola and Eiko on Bram Stoker's Dracula - 1992

Necessity is the mother of invention, or in this eye-opening case, inspiration.

When Francis Ford Coppola was told he wasn’t going to receive the budget he wanted for the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, he infamously declared, “The costumes will be the set.”

Enter Eiko Ishioka, who would fulfill that vision and create the most memorable costumes ever made for these familiar characters.

Ishioka, a Japanese-born graphic designer, had never really taken on the role of costume designer for a project as grand as a big studio Coppola film, starring the likes of Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves and Tom Waits.

Coppola and Ishioka had known each other for almost 20 years when he finally asked her to be the costume designer for his production of Dracula.

It All Started With A Poster Series
In 1979, Ishioka designed a striking Japanese poster series for Apocalypse Now that caught the director’s eye. She was coincidentally tapped to design the Japanese edition of Eleanor Coppola’s book Notes: On the Making of Apocalypse Now.
Five years later, Francis Ford Coppola executive-produced Paul Schrader’s film, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a highly theatrical, historical drama with Ishioka serving as production designer.

The pair reunited in 1987 when Coppola directed the Rip Van Winkle episode of the television series “Faerie Tale Theatre,” with Ishioka providing the artistic concepts for production designer Michael Erler.
Drawing on a deep well of inspiration, the designer chose a rich color palette and sumptuous fabrics that were sculpted into bold forms and patterns embellished with symbolic details.

Ishioka’s eerie and moody mise-en-scène complements Coppola’s storytelling, and it was due to this personal and professional history that Coppola turned to Ishioka, someone he knew and trusted, once he determined the importance of costumes to his production of Dracula

This the story of how the film Dracula was "rebirthed"

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first edition 1992, super rare book