Calvin Tran

Biography

Old Town — Calvin Tran has brought elegant, modern, and versatile designs to the streets of New York and Chicago with the opening of Calvin Tran in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Tran has said much of his success is attributed to his nonconformist designs and fashion-forward vision. Clients site his keen understanding of a woman’s figure and the personalized attention they receive from Tran and his team.

Prior to his creation of Calvin Tran, Calvin was the Creative Director at Zabari, New York. While there, he led the design team to produce classic and clean key wardrobe pieces using leather as his primary material. Tran has also developed and designed for the men’s label, K-oss, in the mid 1990’s.

Tran’s designs have been featured internationally in publications such as: New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily, Lucky, Cosmopolitan, Chicago Social, The Men’s Book (2005), and US Weekly. In addition to regional and national publications, Calvin Tran has been featured in ABC 7 “Best of Chicago” and “Asian Influence” in Chicago, The Buena Vista International Upfronts (May 2005) and San Francisco Chronicles “The Inside Scoop” (August 2005).

Calvin’s vision has graced many fashion icons of our time such as: Drew Barrymore (MTV Movie Award 2004), Gina Gershon (Pray for Rock & Roll 2004), Brooke Shields, Piper Perabo, and Iman.

In 2004, Calvin was awarded the Style Breaker award by the Fashion International Group. Past recipient included Nate Berkus. Tran graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago in 1998. He currently resides in New York City and Chicago.