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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\n I look at the magazines and watch some of the news programs on TV nowadays, and it seems like there are so many tramps in the world! Do you agree with that? Are we all doomed? Who is the CLASSY-est person in \"Young Hollywood\" that you've met?\n\n Give me some hope!\n\n Lauren Looking for Class!\n\n _ DEAR LAUREN,\n\n I love this question. And to be honest with you, the lack of sophisticated young women in the media is one of the reasons I thought CLASSY was such an important book to write. Turn on the television now and you're likely to see a story on the strip joint where a certain golfer's mistress worked or the real-life T-shirt shop in New Jersey that a certain MTV show was filmed at. I don't think those stories and these types of shows are bad (I must admit I've watched a few of them!), but I do wish we gave the same amount of airtime to the chic young women in the public eye--because they are out there! Trust me!\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest\n\n After these two great girls, there are loads more: My friend Milla Jovovich is superclassy, as are Jessica Alba and Emma Roberts. I have to mention Kate Bosworth too. She's another chic, hardworking young women. Kate and I have traveled to Moscow, Paris, L.A., and New York together--and she has never been anything but fabulously dressed and has always acted like a lady! Same thing with past Teen Vogue cover model Emma Watson, whom I just adore. Here's a young girl that has been famous for more than half of her life, has starred in the biggest franchise of the decade, and is still down-to-earth, sensible and outrageously intelligent (she kept her grades up while filming and is now enrolled in an Ivy League school, for heaven's sake!). I visited her at college last month, watched her in a Chekhov play, and left feeling so proud of her!\n\n Lauren, I have to be honest with you: I'm worried about the sorts of young girls who are taking the part as role models for young girls today. I can't help but be concerned that some teenagers nowadays might think it's OK to get ten different plastic surgeries in a single day because someone on a TV show did. That isn't the case! So be careful of the sorts of girls that you put on a pedestal. And know that there are some chic, CLASSY girls out there!\n\n Yours,\n\nDerek\n\nDerek Blasberg is the editor-at-large of Style.com and a senior editor at V magazine. His first book, CLASSY, is on sale now! Blasberg is TeenVogue.com's April guest blogger; if you have questions of your own, e-mail him at TeenVogue@derekblasberg.com\n\nMore from Derek Blasberg:\n\nCan I wear a short dress to prom?\n\nCheck out his book, CLASSY"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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