PS: Being a show judge is all about opinion, but how do you maintain objectivity?
Brandon Maxwell: I never missed a season, so I would run home from college and we didn't have DVR then. To find myself on it many years later was not something I could have ever predicted. At first I felt like, oh gosh, I haven't been doing this long enough to be able to be on it. But ultimately, this season was particularly exciting for me because there's so many designers that were celebrities to me when I watched them 20 seasons ago, and now I'm judging them.
With any designer that you're working with, our ultimate goal on this show is to see them succeed, whether they win or not. They're part of the family, and we want them to have successful careers that they love and are proud of, no matter which lane of fashion they choose to go down or create for themselves. Of course, we give our opinion, but I think that I can speak for all of us that, especially this season, you're able to give objective feedback because you understand and have context for someone's work. And these designers, we know enough to know which advice is going to be helpful and which is not.