Shawna Trpcic

Shawna Trpcic (née Shawna Leavell) is a Hollywood costume designer. She got her start in the industry with the 1990 film "Megaville", and went on to work as a wardrobe assistant on the films "Toys" and "Red Shoe Diaries". She later served as the main costumer designer on Joss Whedon's television series "Angel" and "Firefly", and Marti Noxon's "Point Pleasant".

In December 2005, Trpcic auctioned off several of the costumes from "Firefly" that were in her private collection. Many of those costume were purchased by fans who later wore them to the 2006 [http://www.browncoatball.com/ Browncoat Ball] in San Francisco. Trpcic attended the ball, along with Jonathan A Logan (who made Mal's original browncoat from Trpcic's design) and posed for a group shot with everyone who was wearing her original costumes.

Trpcic has volunteered at Juvenile Hall, encouraging young women to realize their worth to our society, and teaches art at a men's maximum security state prison in Northern California.

Her last name, Trpcic, is pronounced [turp-cheech] . It is a Croatian name, which with the full set of diacritics is spelt Trpčić.

Trivia

*Trpcic altered her own wedding dress to create the ballgown worn by Morena Baccarin (as Inara Serra) in the "Firefly" episode "Shindig".

*Trpcic often attempts to add pink flamingos somewhere on her costumes as she considers this to be her signature mark. An example of this is pointed out by Trpcic herself in the audio commentary to "Shindig", where they are visible on the lapel of the character Badger played by Mark Sheppard.

External links

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* [http://www.ishawna.com/ Shawna Trpcic's website]
* [http://www.fireflycostumes.com Shawna's Firefly costume sale]