Meet Student Designer: Madeline Mares

Madeline Mares is a Designer and a student of Harper College who lives in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. She attended Hoffman Estates High School, where her love for fashion and sewing began.

Credit: Alex Callejo Photography

Madeline has been sewing and designing apparel since she was 15 years old, and has continued to apply herself since. Since starting at Harper College in the Fall of 2022, she has taken many unique and interesting courses that have helped her grow to become the designer that she is today. She showcased her senior collection titled Chaos in Strength at Harper’s 2024 fashion show, Worn, Torn, Reborn, A Memoir. She obtained an Associate’s in Applied Science in Fashion Design in the Spring of 2024 and is continuing to take classes at Harper currently.

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