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Here Is Mr. Kanye 'College Dropout' West Teaching At L.A. Trade Technical College
Kanye West is known for many things—like telling a fan in a wheelchair to stand up during his concert or claiming he inventedleather jogging pants. But now, he can add "fashion teacher" to his repertoire. The College Dropout rapper has been teaching fashion classes at L.A. Trade Technical College. Though he's been there since spring, some new photos of him in action from his students during the fall quarter surfaced on Instagram.
Teaching is part of a 250-hour community service sentence West received in March for attacking a photographer at LAX last July. TMZ reported in June that West has been teaching classes on designer labels and talking about his experience working in the fashion industry.
In May, Tiffany La Vonne Instagrammed this photo of West at the school. She captioned it, "Kanye West speaking to the graduating fashion students at L.A. Trade Tech college about the business of fashion and his personal experience within the fashion industry. This is so dope!"
But one of our favorites is a photo of a serious (and kind of under-dressed) Mr. West in his olive green-colored hoodie, leaning against a whiteboard with the words "Presentations Tomorrow!" written in all caps with "Tomorrow" underlined. We'd like to imagine that an excited West scribbled this on the board before class started that day.
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