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VANG Quarterly E-Magazine, Vol 4
Wednesday - May 20, 2009
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Bao Tranchi

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Costume and Fashion Designer

Tranchi is a Costume and Fashion Designer.  Tranchi graduated from OtisCollege of Art & Design at the top of her class and immediately upon graduation, was offered a Designer job at Anne Klein in New York or work on Queen of the Damned, as the illustrator and assistant to Academy award nominated Costume Designer Arianne Phillips.  Bao took the costume job and became the youngest person ever admitted into the Costume Designer's Guild.  From there, she went on to work on other productions such as Charlie's Angels, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, The Madonna Drown World Tour, music video styling for Janet Jackson, Destiny's Child (with directors such as Joseph Kahn and Jonas Akerland).  

Her first magazine photo shoot was for Rolling Stone Magazine with Mark Seliger shooting Leonardo DiCaprio.  Her self named clothing label has been worn by Steven Tyler, James McAvoy, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Alba, Brittany Murphy, Salma Hayek, Naomi Watts, Paris Hilton, and Courtney Cox.   Tranchi also designed and produced the wardrobe for Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" and "Hazel Eyes"  2005-6 World Tours as well as her video for "Behind these Hazel Eyes."    Tranchi is also the Costume Designer for Ham Tran's Journey from the Fall.  In 2006, Tranchi was handpicked by Tyra Banks to be a guest judge on Cycle 7 of America 's Next Top Model.  

In 2007, she was handpicked to be one of 13 life size cutouts at the first Vietnamese American historical exhibition at the Smithsonian in WashingtonDC for her work in Fashion and Costume.  Tranchi will be the Costume Designer for Dustin Nguyen's upcoming directorial debut feature Monk on Fire.
 

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