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Harper College fashion design student Ali Forsythe recently placed second in a national contest with her design of a cardigan made of alpaca fur. The 20-year-old from Mount Prospect hopes to open her own boutique after earning a fashion degree.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

Fashion design student Ali Forsythe, working on a project in her class at Harper College, recently placed second in a national contest with her design of a cardigan made of alpaca fur. The 20-year-old from Mount Prospect hopes to open her own boutique after earning a fashion degree.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

Fashion design student Ali Forsythe, working on a project in her class at Harper College, recently placed second in a national contest with her design of a cardigan made of alpaca fur. The 20-year-old from Mount Prospect hopes to open her own boutique after earning a fashion degree.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

Fashion design student Ali Forsythe, in her classroom at Harper College. The Mount Prospect resident recently placed second in a national contest with her design of a cardigan made of alpaca fur.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

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Fashion design student Ali Forsythe, works on her latest project in her class at Harper College. The Mount Prospect resident recently placed second in a national contest with her design of a cardigan made of alpaca fur.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

This design of a long, pale pink knitted cardigan, made out of luxurious alpaca fiber won Harper College fashion student Ali Forsythe second place in a national design competition.

Courtesy of Donna Sculley

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Ali Forsythe was back in a Harper College workroom last week, laboring alongside other students in constructing a pattern for leggings, one of the basic requirements in their “Knits” class. The routine belies the fact Forsythe, of Mount Prospect, is no ordinary fashion design student at the Palatine college.