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...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Charles Pelton/San Rafael
...DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, Lauren attended business classes but paid little attention to studies. His adolescent idols were British and American style setters: the Duke of Windsor, for example, and Katharine Hepburn, who stole the show in The Philadelphia Story with her pants-and-pearls look. Lauren's early fashion education was basically a home- study course that he recalls being a "combination of movies and reading Esquire." Says he: "Whether that world exists or not, I don't know. I saw things as they should have been, not as they were...
...teachers are really encouraging, supportive. You get a lot of individual attention." says Dewitt. "You feel like you matter something to the teacher. You're not just another student. They're interested in what you're doing...
...have more to do before dinner, but then they [her entrymates not enrolled in the dance program] have more homework," explains Dewitt. "Everybody's got all this work to do and we don't have any." She adds that sometimes when she and her friends in the dance program want to go out, their friends in academic classes can't join them...
...Even in classes," adds Dewitt, "you get out of them what you put into them. If you really work at it, you can improve or you can slouch through your classes and not get any better...