What advice would you give students who are thinking about becoming an artist or a designer?

R: "I always tell kids you have to stay in your own bubble as long as you possibly can. We need more people to bring their own individual ingredients to the big soup. You have to create your own universe and then share it with everyone else when the time is right. You can’t start out trying to fit in and be like everyone else. If you’re doing something and nobody understands it — especially something creative — then you’re doing something right. Anything new is misunderstood in the beginning."

I: "I would say never give an artist advice — an artist just does. You can’t help but do what you do to express yourself — otherwise, you can’t breathe. I went to Parsons and the Fashion Institute of Technology and didn’t graduate — but if you really have that drive, you will get there. And if you are in school, make sure you take in everything. You are exposed to so much and that's important. Also, don’t wait, just do. Ruben was selling postcards from Fiorucci when he was still high school."