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Max Alexander (fashion designer)

American fashion designer (born 2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ140731184 ↗
Source-derived summary

Max Alexander Madison (born February 25, 2016), also known as Couture to the Max, is an American fashion designer. He makes women's wear and is known for his vibrant and layered designs. In 2024, he became the youngest designer to present at a runway show at seven years old and in 2026, he became the youngest designer to debut at Paris Fashion Week.

Early life

Max Alexander Madison was born on February 25, 2016, in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Sherri Madison, is an artist who mainly uses reused cardboard in her works; she also made an appearance on the reality television series Craftopia. His father, Jack Kolodny, is Canadian. His grandfather owned a dress business in Montreal, while his great-grandfather worked as a cutter in Russia and went on to own over forty dress stores. Alexander has a little brother, Dorian, who assists him with his work. He also has an older sister.

Career

Alexander had wanted to be a dressmaker since he was four.

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“Max Alexander (fashion designer)” enters the record as american fashion designer (born 2016). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alexander, fashion and designer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2024, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-02-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alexander, fashion and designer.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140731184. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2024 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Max Alexander (fashion designer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.