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The Row
The Row is the New York fashion house established in 2005 by Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen. Its collections are built around exceptional fabrics, precise tailoring, discreet construction and a deliberately restrained design language across ready-to-wear, accessories, footwear and bags. The Olsen sisters remain Co-Founders and Creative Leads, a shared mandate that the directory preserves instead of defaulting to one person as the sole author. The page focuses on the house’s documented creative proposition and shared founding structure rather than attaching unsupported ownership, revenue or valuation claims to a private company. Its minimalist presentation is treated as an aesthetic and product practice, not as evidence of a particular commercial scale.
- Country
- United States
- Founded
- 2005
- Founder
- Ashley Olsen
- Creative lead
- Mary-Kate Olsen
- Ownership
- Founder-controlled
- Documented milestones
- 4
- Ashley Olsen — Co-Founder2005–Present · house · current · The Row
- Ashley Olsen — Designer2005–Present · house · current · CFDA
- Mary-Kate Olsen — Co-Founder2006–Present · house · current · The Row
- Mary-Kate Olsen — Co-Creative Director2006–Present · house · current · The Row
- Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski — Women’s Design Director2011–2014 · womenswear · former · Vogue
- 2005 — House establishedAshley and Mary-Kate Olsen establish The Row.
- 2010 — First runway presentationThe Row presents its first runway collection for Fall-Winter 2010.
- 2015 — CFDA womenswear awardThe founders win Womenswear Designer of the Year.
- 2019 — Fifth CFDA awardThe Row wins Accessory Designer of the Year, its founders' fifth CFDA award.