From 1934 until 1938, Penn studied design at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art under the legendary designer Alexey Brodovitch, who would travel to Philadelphia each week from New York, where he worked for Harper's Bazaar.
The sisters never studied design, although Ashley had an internship with fashion designer Zac Posen and Mary-Kate interned with photographer Annie Leibovitz.
Though he and Ms. Levine have illustrious resumes (he, a TED fellow who studied design in London and worked at M.I.T.; she, a cancer researcher, interactive designer and wildland firefighter), neither was a trained robotics engineer, much less a boat-builder.
Studied design at New York Schools.
Ms. Hickey, who rarely uses her given name, Rebecca, studied design at Syracuse University.
Married before she turned 18, Ms. Tarlow studied design at Parsons and the New York School of Interior Design.
Freddy Gaviria, a Colombian who studied design in Milan, cuts a dash in his own label pinstripe skinny trousers.
He briefly studied design at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture, leaving because he said he was bored.
He attended St Mary's Roman Catholic school in Failsworth, Oldham, and studied design at the Manchester School of Art.
Mirza, who has just been awarded the Northern Art prize, studied design at London's Goldsmith's College before turning to art.
Parris was apprenticed to a carpenter as a boy and subsequently studied design in Portland, Maine.
