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That jt wasn't the tth.” I would say was not easy, obvly, growg up Texas the late ’80s, early ’90s. There weren't gay people around that time who I knew or regnized, so I always felt like I was different. And I thk that 's somethg that I've always rried wh me my whole life. </p><p>Before I ever went to a birthday party or to school or to a iend's hoe or anywhere, really, I always had that wh me. That nsumed my thoughts and my md before ever gog anywhere. It's like, “I'm different, and this is gog to be a different experience for me. I'm gog to need to fd ways for the people to see me and like me and value me.”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-unslot nsumer-marketg-unslot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-unslot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>There were a lot of thgs that I went through at that age when I felt unsafe, and I had people sayg thgs to me. So wasn't jt walkg to a room like, “Oh, I'm different.” It was like, “If I walk to this room, is someone gog to say somethg to huiate me? Are they gog to do somethg where I'll be physilly unsafe?”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>I remember so many tim as a kid gog to the library junr high and high school and tryg to fd rmatn. Of urse, there were wonrful people on TV. You had <em>Will & Grace,</em> or you had Elton John and Gee Michael. And I knew signers like Tom Ford and Marc Jabs. I remember beg so eye-openg g to New York and realizg that there are so many kids like me all over the world.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="adslot adslot---ntent" data-no-id="35wu0d"></div></div><p>When I got a r I would go to the library and I would try to look up books that had the word gay them. But I grew up a small town East Texas. It's certaly not somethg we learned about school. Whereas now you n Google that, and you would know. I need to go learn what was to be me. I wanted to read about the stori of people who me before me and what their liv were like. When I would e home om those experienc, or when I would feel isolated, I always had the same girliends who would do creative thgs wh me. I'm forever love and grateful to the people who om day one always loved me and saw me. I'm really grateful to not only the people who did that for me, but also all the people everywhere who are dog that for young people right now bee 's really hard to expla how valuable that is.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="9j4ww"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>I told my mom the Starbucks drive-th when I was home om my first semter om llege New York. While we were orrg I was like, “Mom, I'm gay.” And she's like, “I know,” and we kept orrg and that was pretty much . I thk she said, “A mother knows, Brandon. Of urse, I know that.” And then I told my grandparents the same day, I thk. I went on, like, a g out tour that day. Movg to New York was very eye-openg for me, and so when I me home I told my grandmother and my grandfather. I jt said, “I don't thk I'm gog to get married.” And my grandmother said, “Well, of urse you're gog to get married. 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Is Brandon Maxwell Gay: Sexualy Partner & Datg History

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The Longview native is..." src="()/" class="dmnc_imag-img-module__-o1u- max-w-full text-whe object-nta dmnc_imag-img-module__Y5YJY dmnc_imag-img-module__pZHsv aspect-rat-ner-centered-f"/></div><figptn class="dmnc_imag-image-elements-module__ku669 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-10 mt-3 text-gray-medium">Fashn signer Brandon Maxwell at Neiman Marc downtown Dallas. The Longview native is jt 33 and has already won fashn's equivalent of an Osr.<span class="dmnc_imag-image-elements-module__7oO0P pl-1">(Sey N. 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Supermol Naomi Campbell was his pl-one.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“Image beg a slightly overweight kid om East Texas, beg nomated for womenswear signer of the year, and you have Naomi Campbell as your date,” he says a recent terview. “You would almost fall over om a stroke. In that moment when I was up there lookg at everyone, I thought, ‘If nothg else ever happens my life, this happened to me.’ ”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__D24FM w-full mb-6 htlad-nativeArticleInle" data-un="dmn/bs/article/nativeArticleInle" data-targetg="{"native":"nativeArticleInle","scroll":"1"}"></div></div><div class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__tuJWZ relative flex flex-wrap overflow-hidn borr-b borr-gray-light mb-7 py-7 borr-t borr-gray-light"><div class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__mr-5C w-full z-20 relative flex flex-wrap jtify-start ems-center dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__1-Zwl sendaryBold sendaryBold-8 pr-7">...</div><div class="dmnc_generic-lightbox-lightbox-module__-cF98 cursor-poter w-full"><div class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__DyJy- flex gap-x-4 py-5 ems-center align-middle text-gray-dark sendaryBoldCaps sendaryBoldCaps-30 cursor-poter hover_text-black"><svg width="13" height="13" viewBox="0 0 13 13" fill="currentColor" xmlns="><path d="M6.25 9.207a2 2 0 100-4 2 2 0 000 4z"></path><path d="M4.375.957l-1.144 1.25H1.25C.562 2.207 0 2.77 0 3.457v7.5c0 .688.563 1.25 1.25 1.25h10c.688 0 1.25-.562 1.25-1.25v-7.5c0-.687-.563-1.25-1.25-1.25H9.269L8.125.957h-3.75zm1.875 9.375a3.126 3.126 0 010-6.25 3.126 3.126 0 010 6.25z"></path></svg> 3 imag</div><div class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__Ae-tT bg-gray-light relative"><img width="1024" height="683" alt="Karlie Kloss (center), Gigi Hadid, Joan Smalls and mols walk the nway New York at the..." src="()/" class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__Kyr7i w-full h-full object-ver absolute left-1/2 dmnc_imag-img-module__-o1u- max-w-full text-whe object-nta"/><button class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__oL27Z absolute bottom-5 left-5 p-5 flex gap-x-4 jtify-between ems-center align-middle bg-black opacy-80 round text-whe sendaryBoldCaps sendaryBoldCaps-30 hover_opacy-80 hover_bg-gray-dark"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="feather feather-maximize"><path d="M8 3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v3m18 0V5a2 2 0 00-2-2h-3m0 18h3a2 2 0 002-2v-3M3 16v3a2 2 0 002 2h3"></path></svg>View Gallery</button></div></div><div></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The Council of Fashn Digners has given the awards annually to some of the biggt nam fashn — thk Vera Wang, Tom Ford, Michael Kors and Osr la Renta — at a black-tie gala New York Cy.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell was so certa that he wouldn't w the Swarovski Award for Womenswear<b> </b>that he had unbuttoned the neck of his sweat-soaked shirt, kicked off his tight drs sho and hung his personally signed Grg Armani tuxedo jacket over the back of his chair.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 md_hidn"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__YIHSg dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__u4HRm dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 md_hidn htlad-dfpPosn2_article" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn2_article" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I thought, ‘There’s no way hell that I’m gog to w, so I might as well get fortable,’ ” he rells. “Even my publicist is like, ‘No one’s won on the first try like 20 years. So enjoy the ee drks.’ So I did.”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 hidn md_flex"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__-zD5N flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-sktopInle2" data-un="dmn/bs/article/sktopInle2" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">He had to antilly reassemble himself when they lled his name.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“Naomi Campbell is like, ‘Get up, du. You’ve jt won,’ ” he lghs.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell breathlsly told the dience his rapid-fire way of speakg that he’d been worried about wearg pants whout elastic and eatg ont of meras wh too many forks to choose om. He told them that his ia of fe dg was “somethg rolled up to a ball and ep-ied and put to wax paper.”</p><div class=""><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__aJKMz hidn">Advertisement</div><div class="" id="teads-article-ad"></div></div><h2 class="body-text-hear">Self-effacg star</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">Offstage, he feared he’d revealed himself as a charlatan to the entire who’s who of the fashn world. “I figured my reer was over, thkg, ‘All of the women who buy my cloth now realize I have no class.’ ”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Well, hardly.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"1"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">His le of expensive women’s ready-to-wear is rried by more than 100 stor, cludg Neiman Marc. His statement tops sell for $1,495 to $2,000, and he’s known for tailored jumpsus, flowg bell-sleeved blo and long, slky gowns that seem slightly retro and edgy at the same time.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">He’s sold hundreds of pairs of his most popular wardrobe mastay — black cigarette pants that retail for $995.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“We’ve branched out the past few seasons to nim and more shirtg and daywear,” says Maxwell, who is about to start work on his fall 2019 llectn.</p><figure class="flex ems-center flex-l"><div class="lazyload-wrapper "><div class="dmnc_imag-img-module__o-Ndr bg-gray-light aspect-rat-ner-centered-f"></div></div><figptn class="dmnc_imag-image-elements-module__ku669 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-10 mt-3 text-gray-medium">Fashn signer Brandon Maxwell photographed at Neiman Marc downtown Dallas on Wednday, April 25, 2018.(Sey N. Pool/The Dallas Morng News)<span class="dmnc_imag-image-elements-module__7oO0P pl-1">(Sey N. Pool / Staff Photographer)</span></figptn></figure><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"2"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">While Maxwell don't disclose revenue, he says sal om his red-rpet and ready-to-wear products have grown at a steady clip of 40-pl each season. Indtry timat place sal at unr $10 ln.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell says he's tried to nta growth to mata qualy.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I’m all about the long term and not the short explosn,” Maxwell says. “The brand wasn’t meant to be flashy, trendy cloth, but somethg to be appreciated over time. The first thg I said on the very first day that we opened the doors was: ‘We never want the cloth to outshe the woman. It’s not about blowg out of the water.’ ”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Neiman Marc signed on early wh Maxwell and has watched his signs progrs over the last three years.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"3"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">"We have seen Brandon add more sportswear to his llectn, as well as troduce vibrant lor," says Neiman's buyer Hillary Senko. "Brandon equently speaks of the strong women who spire him, and is clear through his signs that Brandon is passnate about drsg women to make them feel nfint and empowered for every ocsn. "</p><h2 class="body-text-hear">Red rpet matro</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell talks daily to his BFF Lady Gaga.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">They’ve been personally and profsnally tertwed sce he started helpg her drs for performanc seven years ago, when he was 25 and she was 23.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"4"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">He has created one-of-a-kd signs that st upwards of $60,000 for a bevy of celebri, cludg Gwyh Paltrow, Michelle Obama, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Schumer, Nile Kidman, Vla Davis and Jane Fonda.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“And Oprah!” he terjects, after givg the list some thought. “Can’t fet Oprah! Oh my God!”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“He’s done thgs for some betiful, betiful women,” says his father and bs partner Mike Maxwell. “But they’re not all size on.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell famoly transformed the cutout, hipbone-barg, floor-sweepg heavy whe gown he’d signed for Karlie Kloss for the 2016 Met Gala to a jacketls midrs after someone spilled red we on .</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"5"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The two ma a vio of the procs, wh Kloss wonrg whether was a terrible ia or a stroke of geni.</p><div data-oembed-type="raw-html" id="isolated-embed-BYHEKBQ7UBH4XPZEZPNHNWRCHU"></div><p class="body-text-paragraph"><i>Vogue</i> voted for the latter.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I always make an exact duplite se somethg happens to the origal,” Maxwell says. “She has a nice, fully nstcted one her closet.”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"6"}"></div></div><h2 class="body-text-hear">Longview valu</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">So how did this d-mannered, self-pretg young man wh morn Clark Kent glass stake his claim the glamoro land of seemgly endls egos?</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">It started on the homeont.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">As Maxwell se : “Where I e om, you better be nice to everybody. If not, your mom’s gog to have a problem wh , and you’re probably gog to be ground. That’s how I’ve approached life and bs.”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"7"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Begng middle school, Maxwell’s ia of a high time was to sur bety-supply and thrift stor and transform his half-dozen btie girliends to teenage fashn mols for photos he took wh disposable meras.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell is the elst of four wh a sister and a much younger half-brother and half-sister. His mother, Pam, and his father divorced 10 years to their marriage when Brandon was 7 and his sister, Kady, was 3. Pam remarried to Gordon Woolley, and they had two children. It’s a tightly bound blend fay.</p><div class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__tuJWZ relative flex flex-wrap overflow-hidn borr-b borr-gray-light mb-7 py-7 borr-t borr-gray-light"><div class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__mr-5C w-full z-20 relative flex flex-wrap jtify-start ems-center dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__1-Zwl sendaryBold sendaryBold-8 pr-7">...</div><div class="dmnc_generic-lightbox-lightbox-module__-cF98 cursor-poter w-full"><div class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__DyJy- flex gap-x-4 py-5 ems-center align-middle text-gray-dark sendaryBoldCaps sendaryBoldCaps-30 cursor-poter hover_text-black"><svg width="13" height="13" viewBox="0 0 13 13" fill="currentColor" xmlns="><path d="M6.25 9.207a2 2 0 100-4 2 2 0 000 4z"></path><path d="M4.375.957l-1.144 1.25H1.25C.562 2.207 0 2.77 0 3.457v7.5c0 .688.563 1.25 1.25 1.25h10c.688 0 1.25-.562 1.25-1.25v-7.5c0-.687-.563-1.25-1.25-1.25H9.269L8.125.957h-3.75zm1.875 9.375a3.126 3.126 0 010-6.25 3.126 3.126 0 010 6.25z"></path></svg> 3 imag</div><div class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__Ae-tT bg-gray-light relative"><img width="768" height="1024" alt="Brandon Maxwell and his mother, Pam Woolley, were on the Today Show as she was about to drop..." src="()/" class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__Kyr7i w-full h-full object-ver absolute left-1/2 dmnc_imag-img-module__-o1u- max-w-full text-whe object-nta"/><button class="dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__oL27Z absolute bottom-5 left-5 p-5 flex gap-x-4 jtify-between ems-center align-middle bg-black opacy-80 round text-whe sendaryBoldCaps sendaryBoldCaps-30 hover_opacy-80 hover_bg-gray-dark"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="feather feather-maximize"><path d="M8 3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v3m18 0V5a2 2 0 00-2-2h-3m0 18h3a2 2 0 002-2v-3M3 16v3a2 2 0 002 2h3"></path></svg>View Gallery</button></div></div><div></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Brandon’s grandmother was a buyer and manager at Riff’s, Longview’s now-gone versn of Neiman Marc that tered to East Texas’ oil-rich clientele, and where Brandon spent his after-school hours.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"8"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“That’s where my formative experienc me to be,” he says.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">He took sheets off the bed and draped them on Kady like Ven Milo, not realizg that this was a precursor to his reer.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I didn’t grow up L.A., New York, London or Paris,” Maxwell says durg a recent vis to Neiman’s downtown flagship, where his cloth are featured on s exclive signer send floor. “I grew up Longview gog to Payls ShoeSource for my buy-one-get-one als, eatg at McDonalds and gettg my stuff at Walmart.”</p><h2 class="body-text-hear">Guiltls pleasur</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell, who wears a morn versn of Clark Kent glass, is a man of nvenient tast -- preferrg to keep thgs simple.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"9"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">When he’s out and about, his sho of choice are a pair of well-worn tan Balma sue ankle boots bought Japan for $4,000 after his first big paycheck seven years ago.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I’m a person who don’t have many thgs. I have this pair of pants and another pair of jeans that are the same brand,” he says smoothg the tops of his Frame nims. “I only wear Jam Perse tops. So this is a Jam Perse top and a Jam Perse shmere sweater.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">His lor of choice is black. “It his everythg.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Most of the time when he’s at his Manhattan stud at 49th Street and Madison Avenue, he’s Nike workouts and nng sho.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"10"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">"One thg I have never done is tell people that I live a glamoro life," Maxwell says. "Nety-ne percent of the time, I'm sweatpants, workg at the office 19 hours a day, tryg to n a bs wh women who are workg jt as hard as me, probably harr."</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Humor is ser bs for him. From an early age, he ed as his foil agast prejudice for him beg gay.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“If I uld make people lgh, maybe they’d see me more for who I was more than what they perceived I was before they met me,” he says.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"11"}"></div></div><h2 class="body-text-hear">Magic charisma</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">Hair stylist Gabriela Cotton, owner of the Blon Leopard salon At, has been his bt iend sce they were 14.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“He’s always been a mag,” says Cotton, who’s known Maxwell sce they were both 5. “He has this energy that mak everyone want to be a part of his world.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Is she surprised wh his stra of secury?</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"12"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“Always,” she says. “It kills me. But that’s also part of his charm. If he was on top of the world all the time, you might get annoyed wh him. To see this credibly talented, handsome, brilliant guy still have this secury about him brgs you closer to him.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Brandon’s mother always thought he’d make a great lawyer.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“He uld argue his way out of anythg, nfe me and make me qutn why I was gettg onto him the first place.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell talked his way to Marymount Manhattan College, even though he didn’t have the gras, and moved to New York 2003.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"13"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Woolley remembers beg worried to have her first-born so far away.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“As a parent, the bt gift you n give your child is to nurture their tert, love hard, pray hard and let them live out their dream.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">But Maxwell lacked a sense of purpose the Big Apple. After two years, he moved back to Texas to attend St. Edward’s Universy At.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“Gog to that school, my whole life began,” he says. “All of a sudn, I was on the an’s list.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"14"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I was workg at school 18 hours a day an art program and photography. I got to work on my te love, which is photography and directg.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I found every b of who I was that place.”</p><h2 class="body-text-hear">Gog Gaga</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">After gettg his photography gree 2008, Maxwell and Jsy Price, a fellow photographer who’s now his fiancé, took their shared votn to New York, movg to a brownstone “closet” where the mattrs lerally h all four bedroom walls.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"15"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell was eatg out of vendg mach and was about to polish off the last of his $10,000 savgs when proment New York stylist Deborah Afshani lled and asked him to be her tern.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I thought, ‘I’ve been puttg drs on people all my life. I n do that.’ It seemed crazy that people got paid to do that.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">That led to workg wh Nila Formichetti, Lady Gaga’s fashn director, 2010.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">At the time, Gaga was jt begng to promote <i>The Fame Monster,</i> which set her firmly on her path to succs. They traveled the world together and worked on album after album.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"16"}"></div></div><figure class="flex ems-center flex-l"><div class="lazyload-wrapper "><div class="dmnc_imag-img-module__o-Ndr bg-gray-light aspect-rat-ner-centered-f"></div></div><figptn class="dmnc_imag-image-elements-module__ku669 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-10 mt-3 text-gray-medium">LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 05: Sger Lady Gaga and sger Brandon Maxwell attend The Fashn Awards 2016 on December 5, 2016 London, Uned Kgdom. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Imag) ORG XMIT: 685738457<span class="dmnc_imag-image-elements-module__7oO0P pl-1">(Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Imag)</span></figptn></figure><p class="body-text-paragraph">When Formichetti shifted profsnal gears 2012, Maxwell took over the lead role as Gaga’s fashn director a seamls handoff. Maxwell has been creded wh leadg her away om her bizarre stumg phase — à la the raw meat drs worn at the 2010 MTV Vio Mic Awards — and to a sultry, sophistited look suable for duets wh Tony Bent.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“That’s a b of media misnceptn that I’m the glamour guy,” Maxwell says. “I’ve been a part of all of . I was Nila’s assistant, so I had the meat drs ma.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">When Brandon’s mother learned about her son’s new gig, she didn’t know who the entertaer was.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"17"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I was like, ‘Who is Lady Gaga?' ” says Woolley, who still liv Longview. “I listened to untry-Wtern or my ’70s mic.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">She’s a fan now.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell don’t brag about his Gaga nnectn. In fact, others utned me not to brg her up.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“It’s not that I don’t like to talk about our iendship,” he explas when I do. “People look at someone who’s famo and thk you uldn’t possibly have a te relatnship wh them. Gaga’s on the floor her pajamas helpg wh my shows jt like my sister is. I’m not gog to moize my iendship. After awhile, I jt stopped talkg about .”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"18"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Is he tirg of the “former Lady Gaga stylist” ephet?</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“Anytime that I’m mentned the same sentence wh her is a proud moment for me,” he says, “and will be for the rt of my life.”</p><h2 class="body-text-hear">Fast growth, challeng</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">Over lunch wh a fashn reporter sprg 2015, Maxwell talked about startg a le of Brandon Maxwell cloth. The next thg he knew, he was readg onle that he was lnchg a llectn that fall.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"19"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“Talkg about and seeg on the ter are two different thgs,” he says. “So I had to e up wh [a llectn] pretty fast. And hire people. And get money. The fantasy of whippg up drs very quickly turned to the realy of nng a bs.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">He turned to his father for help.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Mike Maxwell’s qutn was why?</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“He was a stylist for Gaga and he was dog really, really well,” Mike rells. “His answer was ‘I love this.’ And I said, ‘OK, let 'er rip.’ ”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"20"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The pany, Brandon Vance (his middle name) LLC, is owned 50-50 by Brandon and Mike, former chief operatg officer of Glazer’s Distributors, the multibilln-dollar we, beer and spirs pany. Mike, 61, retired at 52 to bee an Anglin prit at a church at Lake Cherokee outsi Longview.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I went om one spir to the other,” Mike says, showg where Brandon might have gotten his w.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“It tak a very particular parent when your kid says, ‘I’m gog to start a fashn bs,’ to get behd that,” says Brandon. “He knew I was young and naive, and he wanted to watch out for me. I’m really grateful for that.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I had to take a lot of risks. And that’s very sry as a parent. He did a good job of beg very patient wh me. Obvly, he raised me, so he knew what he was for.”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"21"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The pany is breakg even, Mike says, bee any profs are beg plowed back to the bs.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Brandon is nsirg a sendary le of products that are more affordable for younger women, as well as sho, bags, bety products and even home furnishgs.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">He wants to do more films, televisn, wrg and philanthropic projects.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">The Maxwells might have to give up a piece of the actn to fuel growth that’s happeng faster than expected and to expand ternatnally, which seems like a natural to them.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"22"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“If Brandon’s gog to go to the next level — and there are a lot of fns of what the next level is — he’s probably gog to have to get somebody who n vt more than me and who also has the dtry expertise that I don’t have,” says his father.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“He’s on a phenomenal growth trend. But he’s that dilemma that every time he grows, he has to pump more pal.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I try to be more of a mentor, but I’m also a mentor wh an opn bee I’m fancially volved,” Mike says and then rrects himself. “I’m not fancially volved. I’m fancially mted.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I listen to all the dreams and passn, and I’m like, ‘OK, but how are we gog to pay for the material? How are we gog to pay for the buttons? Let’s e back to the subject at hand.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"23"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“He wants to hire more people, and I have to remd him this isn’t the army. We n’t jt ll up another platoon.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I have to keep him ground.”</p><h2 class="body-text-hear">High anxiety</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">Brandon worri about strs, anxiety, burnout and not livg up to people’s expectatns of what is to be a signg star.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"24"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“All of that danc around my head all day long,” he says. “Then there’s the fancial bs si that weighs on me.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“It’s hard to be thk about, ‘Should this be red or should be pk?’ when you’re really thkg about, ‘Do I have the money to keep the lights turned on?’</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“When you’re buildg a bs, there’s the dream and there’s the realy. You have to stay somewhere the middle.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">When he feels like breakg down tears, he do — at least a uple of tim a week.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"25"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I don’t try to act strong. I jt let out and let go. I know when somethg is too much for me, if the schle is too overwhelmg, we cut back.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">His 15 full-time and eight part-time employe are all women — most of them unr 25. Why an all-woman crew?</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I do not want to start makg cloth that make women look like Barbie dolls,” he says. “When I’m ftgs, the young women will tell me whether they’d wear . The product is improved so much bee they’re my soundg board.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“If you’re gog to be a brand for women, you better damn well employ women.”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"26"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Take pockets, for example.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">His first llectn didn’t have a pocket anythg. His fashn photographer took issue and he listened.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">He and his team stayed up all night addg pockets to every garment.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Now he wouldn’t nsir signg anythg whout one — except those sk-tight black pants. He tried, but didn’t work.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"27"}"></div></div><h2 class="body-text-hear">Speakg his heart</h2><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell wants to e his elevated stat to help young people who might be gog through paful experienc siar to the on he faced growg up.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I was sred to go out as a kid, aaid that somebody might beat me up,” he says, admtg that he don’t really know today if those fears were real or of his mental makg. “I jt knew I was gog to get out of town and do somethg wh my life. I knew I was gog to create somethg big for myself.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“When you’re different and you’re young, so many kids give up before they ever get started bee they don’t unrstand when they’re 17 that you grow up to be 25, then 30, and gets better,” he says. “Your life chang. And you n make somethg of yourself. A lot of young people n’t see past that.”</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"28"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Maxwell hastens to add that he lov his hometown and gets back to Longview about once every three months. The women there, cludg many of his mom’s iends, are among his most loyal ctomers.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“The smoke-and-mirrors show of how famo and what a fabulo signer you are and the wonrful liftyle you lead is a dangero road to be on. You lose touch wh the people you origally started dog this job for.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“My purpose, I hope, is gog to be much bigger than cloth.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">He figur that CFDA Fashn Award was a once--a-lifetime thg, and that’s OK.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"29"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“I put on my sk and look at every sgle day. It’s jt an award, no big al, right? Well, Calv Kle has one. Halston has one. And I have me.”</p><h3 class="body-text-hear"><h3>Brandon Maxwell</h3></h3><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Tle:</b> Fashn signer</p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Age:</b> 33</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/bs/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"30"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Grew up:</b> Longview</p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Ris:</b> Brooklyn Heights, New York</p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Edutn</b>: Try School of Texas, Longview, 2003; attend Marymount Manhattan College for two years; bachelor of arts photo munitns, St. Edward's Universy At, 2008</p><p class="body-text-paragraph"><b>Personal:</b> Engaged to Jsy Price</p></sectn></div><div class="dmnc_generic-share-bar-share-bar-module__C7Mzo flex flex-l md_flex-row md_ems-center"><div class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__QPbOU flex flex-wrap mb-8"><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href=" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" tle="Share on Facebook"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__2p85- text-facebook"><path d="M18 2h-3a5 5 0 00-5 5v3H7v4h3v8h4v-8h3l1-4h-4V7a1 1 0 011-1h3z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href=" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" tle="Share on Twter"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__vWRQM text-twter"><path d="M23 3a10.9 10.9 0 01-3.14 1.53 4.48 4.48 0 00-7.86 3v1A10.66 10.66 0 013 4s-4 9 5 13a11.64 11.64 0 01-7 2c9 5 20 0 20-11.5a4.5 4.5 0 00-.08-.83A7.72 7.72 0 0023 3z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href="mailto:?; tle="Share via Email"><svg width="16" height="11" viewBox="0 0 16 11" xmlns=" fill="currentColor" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le "><path d="M8.202 6.698L15.085.62c-.046-.007-.088-.028-.136-.028H1.452c-.03 0-.055.015-.083.018l6.833 6.087zM15.913 1.557a.95.95 0 00-.065-.323l-4.86 4.291 4.798 4.198a.954.954 0 00.127-.453V1.557zM.564 1.185a.957.957 0 00-.076.372V9.27c0 .14.034.272.088.392L5.42 5.51.564 1.185z"></path><path d="M10.26 6.167L8.2 7.986l-2.054-1.83-4.744 4.066c.017.002.032.012.05.012h13.454l-4.647-4.067z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href="()" tle="Prt"><svg fill="currentColor" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le " width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" xmlns="><path d="M13.125 2.813V0H1.875v2.813H0v5.624h1.875v2.813L5.625 15h7.5V8.437H15V2.814h-1.875zM11.25 13.124H6.562v-2.813H3.75v-3.75h7.5v6.563zm0-10.313h-7.5v-.937h7.5v.938z"></path></svg></a></div></div><div class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__0hBFH mb-8"><div class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__Jh9-n flex lg_ems-center pt-4 pb-4 borr-t borr-gray-light"><a href="/thor/cheryl-hall" class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__TT9iw flex-shrk-0 mr-5"><img width="140" height="140" alt="Cheryl Hall" src="()/" class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__3OzIr block dmnc_imag-circle-image-module__dSj87 round-circular bg-ver bg-center dmnc_imag-img-module__-o1u- max-w-full text-whe object-nta"/></a><div><p class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__sZHYI sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-20 mb-2"><a class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__Bj7w9 lk-blue unrle" href="/thor/cheryl-hall/">Cheryl Hall</a>, Bs lumnist. Cheryl, a journalism graduate of SMU, has vered bs for more than 45 years and gets her phone lls returned. 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