As twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley have been inseparable since birth.

With their acting career, and now running their fashion brand, the duo have remained side by side through it all.

Ashley is incredibly grateful for their close bond, as she opened up about how important it is to have her sister to "lean on".

"I think what’s great is that we have each other to lean on. And managing design is one thing and then also running the business side is another and I think you have a lot of decisions to make," she told i-D magazine's The New Worldwi-De Issue.

Mary-Kate and Ashley have done everything together since they were young

"I mean, when you put those two things together, there’s a lot of decisions to make on a daily basis, so I think we feel fortunate that we can have that dialogue and divide and conquer a bit."

And Ashley revealed her and Mary-Kate have the same "instincts", which serves them well with their fashion brand The Row.

She added: "We like working together and we like having that dialogue."

And Ashley feels lucky to be able to lean on her sister Mary-Kate (
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"I think it helps harden your ideas to be able to hear them out loud, to speak something through."

"You know, we definitely go by intuition and instinct and it can either confirm that feeling, or if we’re both not feeling right about something, for some reason, we just don’t do it. Our instincts are kind of the same," she explained.

The duo now run their own fashion business together (
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When the sisters decided to set up The Row, they weren't even sure if they wanted their name on it.

Ashley said: "We really didn’t want to be in front of it. We didn’t necessarily even want to let people know it was us, in a way."

"I mean, it was one of those things where it was really about the product, to the point where we’re like, ‘Who could we get to kind of front this so we don’t have to?’ I think, to this day, you’ll see we really put the product first."

They confessed that they are both perfectionists (
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Their collections have been described as perfection and Mary-Kate thinks that's very much an echo of who they are as people.

She explained: "I think we’re very much perfectionists. We’re hard workers and we’ve always been hard workers."

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