Ishioka began her career with the advertising division of the cosmetics company
Shiseido in 1961 and won Japan's most prestigious advertising award four years later. Ishioka was discovered by Tsuji Masuda, who created Parco
Ikebukuro from the ailing Marubutsu Department Store. When Parco did well and expanded to a
Shibuya location in 1973, Ishioka designed Parco Shibuya's first 15-second commercial for the grand opening with "a tall, thin black woman, dressed in a black bikini, dancing with a very small man in a Santa Claus outfit". She became deeply involved in Parco's image. Her last Parco campaign involved
Faye Dunaway as "face of Parco" wearing black, on a black chair against a black wall, and peeling and eating an egg in one minute as "a film for Parco." She became its chief art director in 1971; her work there is noted for several campaigns featuring Faye Dunaway and for its open and surreal eroticism. In 1983, she ended her association with Parco and opened her own design firm. In 2003, she designed the logo for the
Houston Rockets. == Film career ==