“Love story.” The phrase conjures to mind dating, weddings, the whole nine. But, what about love stories that have nothing to do with romantic love? What about the other kinds: shared passions, great partnerships, a mututal desire to change the world together? We’re talking about professional love stories, when two like-minded people got together to do something great. And, sure, maybe their hearts intertwine in the process, but we love them for their minds. Here are five power couples we’d say “I do” to.
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@siosidesign @ivysiosi
The brain needs a left and right hemisphere to function- it’s science. And the two-woman design firm Siosi is a living, breathing example of just that. The two women, builder Audi Culver and creative wiz Ivy, are partners in design, craft and life. (And motherhood: a terribly cute dachshund named Arrow calls them both mom.) Indiana basecamps may challenge some artists, but these two are crazy-enterprising. Using Ivy’s automotive restoration skills, these two regularly hop on their motorcycles and go wherever they need to, to pedal their handcrafted tables, shelving systems and stunning housewares.
Business: Siosi Design and Build
@alexahirschfeld @ apollodorus
When James Hirschfield, junior at Harvard, planned an absurdly ostentatious 21st birthday party, he felt like sending a Facebook invite would undermine the effort he put into every other detail. He had a hunch that young people with great taste might feel the same. He was right, because chances are you’ve sent or received one. $48m in fundraising later, he and his sister Alexa work as the joint CEOs of Paperless Post. Launching a massive disruption operation so young proved difficult, but the siblings found that they complemented each other. Now, the digital stationer collaborates with Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta, Kirsten Dunst and the Obamas. And, for the analog lovers among us, you can still order printed versions of the e-vites.
Business: Paperless Post
@boygirl @snpsnpsnp
You may have noticed Playboy’s recent revamping—gorgeously erotic photos, thought-provoking content. Many are crediting Adult Magazine with encouraging this shift. The grown-up magazine launched in 2012 as the answer to low-brow smut that turned pornography into a dirty word. Sarah Nicole Prickett edits the pages wonderfully, but not until after Berkeley Poole (an art director at Barney’s by daydesigns them erotically. Their feeds are sexy, inviting and probbaly way more fun than what everyone else is up to.
Business: Adult Magazine
@vajiajia @jensjenshoffmann
What is it about a charming pair of people, so visually mismatched and so different in pedigree, that makes a strong partnership so fascinating? Well, today is not about answering that question; it’s about celebrating it. The perfect example exists in Jens Hoffmann and JiaJia Fei. He’s the seasoned Deputy Director of The Jewish Museum— this means he oversees “interdisciplinary programming”. She’s an art-world sensation, rising from digital marketing for The Guggenheim to a job created just for her, as director of digital at the JM. In a fascinating day-in-the-life Refinery29 piece, she said, “My career evolved in tandem with social media becoming a marketing strategy.” She knows how to brand herself, and brand a storied museum full of programming that Hoffmann curates. It’s a match made, on, well, Fifth Avenue.
Business: The Jewish Museum
@lesleyarfin @paulrust
Often, we charge married couples with promising “for better or worse” before a lot of those betters and worses happen. For Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin, comedy writers both, they engineered a moment that other couples may have hated: Paul “sleeping” with another woman. Granted, he only did it on-screen, for his role in the lived-in, way-relatable show Love that the two co-created. Their feeds take an honest look at married life when you’re both funny, unfiltered and love the living crap out of your dog. As far as bonafides go, the two are industry vets, Arfin editing Missbehave and writing for Girls, and Rust performing at UCB, writing for the hilariously absurd podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! and Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, which launched this month.
Business: Love on Netflix
