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PARIS — Fashion school Studio Berçot, whose alumni include designers Isabel Marant, Martine Sitbon, Vanessa Seward, Roland Mouret and Vincent Darré, has shut its doors after financial difficulties made maintaining the college unviable, director Marie Rucki confirmed to WWD. Student numbers had dwindled lately, said Rucki, exacerbated by the pandemic making it difficult for international students to hitch the college, which was independently run. “Despite extremely good results, operating costs had just turn out to be too expensive, given the number of scholars,” Rucki said. “It’s an incredible shame for the occupation.” The Studio Berçot, known for pushing students to cultivate a person approach to design, was opened as Cours Berçot by Suzanne Berçot in 1954 and had been run by Rucki...