Shawna Trpcic

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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 Angel & Firefly, and Marti Noxon's Point Pleasant.

In December 2005, Shawna auctioned off several of the costumes from Firefly.

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-sick). It is a Croatian name.

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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.