Mary-Kate Olsen somehow managed to break free from her birth-canal pal and fly solo in Elle magazine's July issue.
But this separation of Tinseltown's twin titans is only temporary, as they have not one, but, naturally, two clothing lines to run—which, Mary-Kate admits, comes with its fair share of friction.
"We don't agree all the time," says Mary-Kate of her working relationship with sister Ashley.
"The way we go about business or designing or making a decision is that we come at it from two completely different angles that at the end of the day, even when we don't think we're agreeing with each other, we are agreeing. We're just getting there in different ways.
"Unless you're a twin," she adds, "you honestly can't know how close twins can be."
Close, maybe. But, of the two, Mary-Kate is definitely more the free spirit—from where she prefers to do business ("I do know I can't work in an office. Ashley, on the other hand, loves going to the office") to her sometimes, okay, make that always, devil-may-care bohemian fashion choices.
"I think there's a real disconnect between the media's perception of fashion and the fashion world's idea of fashion," argues Mary-Kate. "I don't know why I wear some of the things I wear…it's sort of like an art."
Oh M.K., doncha know? All great artists are misunderstood.