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10-year-old fashion designer breaks record at Paris Fashion Week

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Meet the record-breaking new designer on the block!

If you have a passion for fashion, then you're in good company!

Meet 10-year-old Max, he's a fashion designer who has broken, not one, but two world records for his clothing designs.

Max smashed the record for being the youngest runway fashion designer ever at 7-years old, and now he has just broken another Guinness World Record for being the youngest ever designer to have a show at Paris Fashion Week.

Paris Fashion Week is one of the biggest events in fashion, and is where some of the top clothing designers in the world gather to show off their new clothing designs, and one-off art pieces.

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Max's collection featured clothes made from recycled materials

Max's fashion collection at the event featured 15 different designs inspired by flowers, imagination, and creative recycling.

Max has said that sustainability is very important to him when designing clothes, and his latest collection includes an upcycled 1980's wedding dress, old fabric and bags, as well as plant-based biodegradable fabric.

"My collection consists of 15 dresses and they're all, well, 90 percent of my show is biodegradable, recyclable, sustainable, made from dead stock and surplus," Max told CBS News. "Dead stock is leftover material not used by companies... It would have been in the landfill unless I rescued it."

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Back in 2024 Max was invited to give a talk at the United Nations, about how to help prevent fashion waste from over-making clothes in the fashion industry.

Max's mum said he wanted to become a fashion designer when he was just four years old, and he now has more than five million followers on his social media account - which his mum runs for him - who are fans of his work.