ShaVi Lewis, who competed on Project Runway‘s season 18, which aired in the last few weeks of 2019 into 2020, has died, his aunt shared Tuesday on Facebook. Lewis was 38.

“My fabulous talented nephew Sha’Vi Lewis is gone from this place,” Deirdra “DivaDoll” Elkerson wrote on Facebook. “I won’t hear his greetings to me anymore ‘Hey Auntie Diva’ (yes I am shouting).”

She asked that people keep his mother, Joyce Solomon-Frierson; father, Franklin Frierson; brother, Troy Solomon Frierson; and sister, Akira Frierson Wood, in their prayers. And she noted that Lewis had made a name for himself in just a few decades.

“I know he is in a much better place. I can just imagine the welcome he received when he got to those pearly gates, with so many loved ones who had gone on before” she continued. “Oh what a time, what a time he is having with his grandmothers, grandfather, uncles, aunts, cousins, and good friends. My, my, my. Rest in joy, nephew, knowing that you left a hell of a mark on this Earth!!! You will always be loved and never ever forgotten.”

Lewis’ aunt did not explain what had happened to him.

EW has reached out to Bravo and to Project Runway at its new home, Freeform.

During his season, which featured Karlie Kloss and Christian Siriano, Lewis was eliminated from the competition about halfway through.

His official bio from Bravo, the network where the reality show aired then, said that the contestant was a native of Hillside, N.J., and had been raised by musicians. It noted that he had been inspired to create his own clothes at 7 after he “desperately wanted an expensive sequined jacket for his choir concert that his grandmother offered to make from scratch.” She was a seamstress and designer.

As a high schooler, he attended classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology during the summer and he later studied fashion design at Clark Atlanta University. He didn’t graduate from the institution, but “found his style and flair for the dramatics, on which he founded his brand.”

The bio said that Lewis had spent the five years before the show working on a self-titled line of garments and serving as creative director for Stephen F, a menswear company out of Italy.

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Already, his designs had been spotted on the red carpet at the Emmys, on the TV series Pose, and at the Bermuda Fashion Festival.

As the sad news broke, Brittany Allen, one of Lewis’ costars on Project Runway, mourned him in a post.

“I don’t have the words,” she wrote. “My heart aches. The world and this industry will be dim without your light in it. Your love, your laughter, and your continuous support no matter where we were in life was everything. Season 18 forever and ever. Rest in power @shavilewis. Love, your Brit Brat.”