Back in high school she may have cut classes, while he flunked his -- but, today, Isabel and Ruben Toledo are continually schooling the fashion industry on how to stay ahead of the curve. Partners both professionally as well as romantically, the duo garnered SCAD's Lifetime Achievement back in May. Now, FIT is paying homage to Isabel and her designs (which have won the favor of the First Lady herself, who donned Toledo's line for Inauguration Day) with a recently opened retrospective. The exhibition, titled "Fashion From The Inside Out," spans the designer's career and is on view in NYC through September 26.

Midway through May -- a slew of fashion aficionados, many of whom had flown down from New York for the weekend -- gathered in Savannah, Georgia, for the Savannah College of Art & Design's annual senior fashion show. Vogue's Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley (who holds an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from SCAD) was on hand to present Isabel and Ruben Toledo with the college's Lifetime Achievement Award. Designers Yigal Azrouël and Lars Nilsson were also present, taking in the collection presentations (partially the fruits of their own labor, as each designer played mentor to members of SCAD's senior class via its StyleLab program) from the front row. None seemed disappointed by the exciting and evocative show, which reaffirmed SCAD's reputation as one of the premiere fashion programs in the world. Given the collegiate atmosphere, when we caught up with the Toledos pre-show (Isabel having recently become a household name thanks to Michelle Obama wearing her design for President Obama's Inauguration, and Ruben revered for his iconic illustrations), our first question was what the couple, who met at school in New Jersey at the age of 13, were like as students.