KENT: Several times during Thanksgiving break, Dior Delophont awoke at 4 a.m., arrived at the Kent State University fashion school at 6, found the front door locked, and called the campus police.
That’s how desperate the senior track and field star was to show her designs at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Beijing March 25-30. On some of those early mornings she wasn’t alone, but was always the designated dialer.
“I would be the one to call the police officers, ‘You haven’t opened the school yet. You’re 10 minutes late,’” she said. “They really hated me. They were like, ‘It’s not even time yet,’ and I’m like, ‘Yes, it is.