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learn more about the film and television world of costumes." As for the camaraderie of the show, Chelsom states, "High Potential has been such fun because we had no idea how popular it was going to become! Specifically in the Costume Department, I have never worked with such a wonderful and collaborative group of talented and lovely people. Everybody's doors are always open and Sandra Burns, the Costume Designer, has got to be one of the coolest women I have ever worked with. She is so talented and everyone adores her. We all get along great and help each other out. I have never experienced a more family-like feel than the crew on this show." High Potential is fortunate to have Custom Made 705 member Aura Sperling in the workroom; helping dra paerns, assisting in fiings, and sewing numerous alterations to bring Sandra Burns' vision to life. "I do fiings, Made to Order, which involves paerning, cuing, sewing, fiing, and a lot of alterations, and I do look aer everybody. So, it's the wide variety of altering tailoring suits to making skirts for Morgan. We had an influencer on one of our episodes who was wearing a shirt that had this dog printed all over it, and then his dog was wearing an outfit that had the influencer printed all over it, so we had the fabric specially made." Sperling first discovered her love of costuming in elementary school, watching her mother work in the Costume Department at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. "My mother was a seamstress, and she did a work study at the Costume Department at the community college. I spent time in the theater there as she believed exposing me to art and culture was just as important. We would go to the ballet and go to live performances; my favorite thing was storytelling and performance. So I started my career, ironically, doing work study in that same Costume Department that she had. It felt like home. I started learning sewing techniques and using paerns. I'd been sewing at home for quite a bit with my mother. I designed my first theater production when I was 19. Aer I got a taste of the creativity behind that, I was hooked." Sperling went on to work with the Eugene Ballet Company and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, honing her cra by learning different tailoring techniques, dress making, and running the Costume Department 18 FALL 2025 High Potential Costume Department; Emma Cooper on location in the middle of nowhere in camo and Morgan boots. in New York for the luxury fashion brand Valentino. "I graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BS in business and marketing but always knew I wanted to get into fashion in some way. I then worked in NYC for Valentino in the showroom, first as the receptionist, then as an assistant sales rep. I got to go to the Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer Runway Shows in Paris and help run the markets for the Prefall and Resort seasons in New York. I loved it so much! I then was offered the job of Valentino PR person in Los Angeles. I had a lile office in the boutique on Rodeo Drive and basically tried to get as many celebrities to wear Valentino to award shows and other important events as I could. But I wanted to