All The Major Changes Coming To "Project Runway"

Adding to the new team is stylist and fashion designer, Brandon Maxwell. He is currently the fashion director of the Mother Monster herself, Lady Gaga, and has his own ready-to-wear brand featured in fashion retail stores like Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. Maxwell who wrote a touching post on Instagram sharing how he cried when the news was released that he’d be a judge on the revamped show. “Dreams, hard work, ideas; they matter.”

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Today at 3 pm as this announcement went out, it was oh so fateful that I found myself sitting at a pizza joint on 33rd street and 7th Avenue. I opened up my phone and couldn’t help but to start crying. It was on that same street 9 years ago where I started my first internship in New York City. Chubby, badly dressed, with no connections, yet filled with dreams and a can-do attitude, I set out in to the exhilarating unknown and in to a life I NEVER could have known was possible for me. I vividly remember going to the bodega every day for lunch breaks, shopping for the cheapest meal, and calling my parents with the utmost excitement, telling them all the things I got to see and do. Today I got to talk to them and tell them that it kind of worked out. I’m going to be on TV, Mom & Dad. We made it. I’ve always felt that fashion and luxury were about quality and dreams, not about who is better, prettier, or more wealthy. Dreams, hard work, ideas; they matter. I am not a big household name, but I’m working hard to get there. I am beyond thrilled to be joining a legacy show that promotes the idea that your work is what will take you far, and I hope that I will be able to impart some helpful knowledge from my sometimes fraught journey in to the successful careers of other like minded young designers like myself. This is a very proud day for me, and some of you may not understand why, but I hope that other kids like me will. I see you. I am scared to take this leap in my life, of course, but I hope that I will always represent you. I am an imperfect person just trying to get by, to do right by my family, my friends, the women that lift me up, and to leave some sort of legacy that they all can be proud of. We all come in to this world as we are, and I have often felt that the way I came in was not a way that people who loved me could necessarily feel proud of, being different and all, and I have spent my whole life trying to find ways for people who love me to feel proud of me. I know this is shallow, but I hope this is the start of that. Thank you to each and every person who has gotten me here, I am really so much more thankful than I could ever say to you. ❤️

A post shared by Brandon Maxwell (@brandonmaxwell) on Oct 10, 2018 at 6:26pm PDT