In a way, that philosophy also applies to The Row.
“We didn’t want to be in front of it,” Ashley explained, “We didn’t necessarily even want to let people know it was us. It was really about the product, to the point where we were like: Who could we get to front this so that we don’t have to?”
As Ashley—who shares son Otto, 2, with husband Louis Eisner—noted, they created the fashion house with the hope of making something for themselves.
“We had just moved to New York,” she recalled. “We were 18 years old and I think what we did know was that we wanted to take that time to take a break from what we were previously doing and to explore things that interested us.”
That included exploring “what life has to offer,” Ashley continued, before Mary-Kate finished her sentence, saying, “Creatively.”
Take a New York minute to revisit Mary-Kate and Ashley through the years…
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