Winning the V&A’s Francis Williams Award in 1982 for the best descriptive illustration, In and Out of the Garden also attracted the attention of Toru Ando, the art director of Mitsukoshi, the Japanese department store company that later because Isetan Mitsukoshi. After a preliminary visit to Japan, she began a 20-year collaboration with Toru Ando and the team who designed babywear and linen, crockery and glass, and stationery and product packaging.