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MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 45 "I don't think we've ever, ever missed a deadline." —RORY CUNNINGHAM talents are amazing, but they also know how to communicate in such a way that they can work with other people easily, and it's going to benefit everybody they work with." BHC works on hundreds of garments every year but one of BHC's ongoing work collaboration relationships has been with Costume Designer Kathleen Felix-Hager. In 2024, Cunningham was nominated with Felix-Hager for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes for a Series for their work on Hacks, a show they've worked on together for all its seasons. "Last year was the first year that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognized custom- made people, and I was honored to be one of the first six people nominated for an Emmy. I never, ever expected that to happen, because it had never happened in the 114 years of the history of Hollywood. And it's because Kathleen Felix-Hager put me on the list with her when she was nominated, which is outstanding." For her film, You're Cordially Invited, BHC built two zebra walkabout costumes. "We had to make two of those costumes and two of the heads. Kathleen said, 'The script has this dancing zebra in it, and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know where I'm going to have that made.' I said, 'Well, I'll make it.' 'You know how to make that?' I'm like, 'Yeah, that's what we do. You come to us with an idea, and then we make it happen. Whatever it takes. We're going to make it happen.'" Their collaboration has continued and can be seen this fall with Felix-Hager's The Paper, a sitcom mockumentary about a dying midwestern newspaper, produced by the same team who made The Office. Cunningham is proud of BHC's reputation for quality construction and the fact that BHC works on everything from superheroes and spacesuits to period men's and women's garments, walkabouts, body and pregnancy pads—whatever a designer brings to them. "I would say superhero movies are always stretching our skills and engineering abilities." BHC made iconic costumes for Black Panther and Black Panther: