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Mary-Kate & Ashley Talk to USA Today

Erin Balser — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:34:02 +0000

USA Today sat down with Mary-Kate and Ashley to chat about their new JCPenney line, Olsenboye. They talk about their vision for their brand, their daily schedule, what they do with their expansive wardrobe and more.

When asked what trends they want to disappear, they had this to say:

Mary-Kate: Never say never. I really think that. But I’m so crazy. I can look at something right now and say one thing about it. I’ll go home, not be able to sleep, and have a completely different perspective in the morning.

Ashley: Fashion depends on the person. If you’re comfortable in it and feel good in it, that’s what people notice. For me, I just love beautiful things.

You can read the entire interview here.

Image: Newscom

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Talk to Style.com

Erin Balser — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:40:35 +0000

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been busy bees lately! Their fashion empire is taking off and they are taking their high-end line, the Row, to the next level with a New York Fashion Week presentation and a new website!

The ladies chatted with Style.com about launching the website, choosing the design team to create it, the philosophy behind it and more.

They really wanted a simple and sophisticated website, as MK tells Style.com:

We looked at a lot of different Web sites before we started working on our own, and we thought most of them were too loud. We wanted The Row Web site to be subdued and very direct. I think that has been a philosophy behind The Row ever since we started the line

The interview is brief, but it’s interesting because it’s about something completely new and different! Read the complete interview here.

Image: Newcom

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Video: Ashley Olsen on David Letterman

Erin Balser — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:33:10 +0000

Ashley Olsen was a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman last night. Ashley looked gorgeous as the pair chatted about staring DualStar at six years old and growing up working, the entertainment industry in general, her and Mary-Kate’s relationship and more. David drills Ashley on her IQ, ideas process and intelligence level. It’s pretty funny.

I love how Ashley says the same thing about how her and MK communicate that MK said on Oprah.

Ashley a lot more alive in this interview than her and MK’s Oprah appearance.

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New York Times Profiles Mary-Kate and Ashley

Erin Balser — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:03:07 +0000

The New York Times wrote a really well done profile about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on their website. You have to register to read it, but it only takes a minute and it’s free to do!

The profile covers America’s fascination with the Olsens and celebrities like them–wafer-thin, glamorous fashion icons. But the Olsens are unique in that, in the respect they don’t run in the same circles as young Hollywood, they don’t go to the same events and they don’t seek out publicity in th same frequency or manner.

“Symbolically, they are harder to define because they defy the standard categories of American celebrity,” The NY Times writes. “They have acted, but acting is now just a peripheral part of their identity. They appear regularly in tabloids, yet they cannot fairly be included among the Parises and Nicoles, the Laurens and Heidis — the sisterhood of young women famous only for their professional apathy.”

The article covers MK and Ashley’s current work at DualStar and their hopes for building and growing their brand. It’s a really good article, I enjoyed reading it a lot.

Read the article here.

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Videos: Mary-Kate and Ashley on Oprah

Erin Balser — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:56:10 +0000

Here are the videos from Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s appearance on Oprah on Thursday. The show’s themes were young millionaires who turned their passions into fortunes. Oprah covers their movement into the fashion world, what their day to day life is like, how DualStar has changed since they took it over at eighteen, what they eat for breakfast and more.

They talk about the book a lot, which is new and exciting!

What did you think? They covered a lot of the same ground they do in other interviews, but some of it was new and exciting. It was a bit annoying how Oprah kept cutting them off and answering for them, but that’s just Oprah!

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