The pair met when Ishioka designed the Japanese poster for the latter film and struck up a friendship.
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the life of Japanese visual artist and designer Eiko Ishioka (1938-2012) on what would have been her 79th birthday.
It’s the most clearly oriental design Ishioka brings to the film and one of cinema’s most unforgettable costumes.
Never afraid to play with chronology, Ishioka’s move to modernise Dracula culminates in the revolutionary, though entirely practical, decision to hand him a pair of sunglasses.