Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen stepped out together in a rare public sighting, just weeks after new details emerged about where they really stand with their former Full House castmates.
The 40-year-old twins, who rose to fame as child stars before building a major fashion empire, were spotted on Tuesday during a low-profile outing ahead of New York Fashion Week.
Keeping things understated, the sisters appeared to favor ease over spectacle as their luxury label, The Row, is not scheduled to present during American fashion’s marquee week.
Mary-Kate chose a head-to-toe black ensemble, pairing a loose, flowing top with relaxed jeans and strappy leather sandals.
Ashley went for a similarly casual look, wearing a white T-shirt with oversized black shorts and a sweater draped around her neck while carrying a pair of blue jeans.
Both sisters finished their outfits with sunglasses, with their brunette hair styled in the same signature middle part.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen made a rare appearance together following revelations about their relationship with their Full House co-stars
While The Row will sit out New York Fashion Week, the brand is expected to return to the runway in Paris, where Mary-Kate and Ashley are slated to unveil their Spring/Summer 2027 collection on September 30.
This comes weeks after the twins’ relationship with their Full House co-stars was revealed in July by their onscreen sister Jodie Sweetin.
The Olsen twins were infants when they began jointly playing Michelle Tanner, one of the three children of Bob Saget’s widower character Danny Tanner.
Sweetin starred as the middle daughter Stephanie, a role she played from the ages of five to 13, while Candace Cameron portrayed the firstborn, DJ.
After Full House, the Olsen twins plunged into a high-octane adolescence of megawatt glamour and scandalous rumors before retreating from showbiz.
Having escaped the frenzied glare of the spotlight in the 2000s, the now 40-year-old sisters have forged a behind-the-scenes career as fashion moguls, heading up The Row.
Their withdrawal into privacy has allowed an aura of mystery to form around the subject of whether they remain friendly with their old Full House colleagues – a question Sweetin has now answered on the podcast Comics and Kicks.
Our News Outlet contacted a representative for the Olsen twins for comment at the time.
The 40-year-old twin actresses-turned-fashion moguls were seen on an uncommon casual outing together on Tuesday ahead of New York Fashion Week
The two stars opted for comfort on the low-key outing as their billion dollar fashion brand The Row is not set to have a showing during American fashion’s biggest week
‘Everyone’s on good terms with them, but they were eight years old when this show stopped,’ Sweetin noted. ‘Then they did all those movies and all that stuff that I don’t know that they loved doing all the time.’
When Full House ended, the Olsen twins launched headlong into a whirlwind career of TV movies produced by their company Dualstar, which was run by their manager Robert Thorne until they turned 18 and became co-presidents themselves.
Sweetin observed that the twins ‘walked away from all of us at eight years,’ while she herself was in the midst of her ‘formative years’ on Full House from the ages of five to 13.
However, at ‘eight and earlier, you don’t remember all that much, so it was like, they have a different relationship to being on set all the time,’ said Sweetin.
‘They might not remember being two years old and having us all carrying them around and doing all this stuff, but I do.’
With a cast including Lori Loughlin, John Stamos, Scott Weinger, Andrea Barber and Dave Coulier, Full House ran an impressive eight seasons from 1987 to 1995.
Sweetin also glancingly addressed the twins’ decision not to return for the Netflix reboot Fuller House, which lasted five seasons from 2016 to 2020.
‘They don’t want attention and I get it. They had so much and were so invaded and so for public consumption, I totally understand why they don’t wanna do that,’ she said.
The Olsen twins’ relationship with their Full House co-stars was revealed in July by their on-screen sister Jodie Sweetin. Above, the twins in 2019
The Olsen twins were infants when they began playing Michelle, one of the three children of Bob Saget’s widower character Danny Tanner, and were on the show to the age of eight
Lori Loughlin, John Stamos, Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron, Scott Weinger, one of the Olsen twins, Andrea Barber, Dave Coulier and Bob Saget on Full House
‘Everyone’s on good terms with them, but they were eight years old when this show stopped,’ noted Sweetin
Sweetin observed that the twins ‘walked away from all of us at eight years,’ while she herself was in the midst of her ‘formative years.’ Above, Sweetin on the show with Stamos
Stamos with Mary-Kate (right) and Ashley (left) on Full House. He has shared that the Olsen twins attended Bob Saget’s funeral in 2022
The twins’ globetrotting life shooting Dualstar movies – which whisked them between such locales as London, Paris, Rome and the Bahamas – was a tabloid fixture.
Then, just after they turned 18, news broke that Mary-Kate had checked into rehab for an unspecified health issue that was widely rumored to be anorexia.
Although Mary-Kate never herself confirmed she suffered an eating disorder, her dramatic weight loss had already fallen under blistering public scrutiny.
In 2004, the then 17-year-old twins had sat for an infamous interview in which Oprah Winfrey asked them their dress size, a question they awkwardly dodged.
Mary-Kate, who was Ashley’s fraternal twin, later confessed that she used to compare her own looks unfavorably to those of her sister.
‘Are you kidding me? I look in the mirror and I’m like: “Why do you look pretty and I look ugly?”‘ Mary-Kate shared on a CBS 48 Hours special.
Even as they retreated into a more private life in fashion, Mary-Kate continued to be a subject of public fascination due to her age-gap romance and eventual turbulent divorce from Olivier Sarkozy, half-brother of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
They began dating when she was 26 and he was 43 and remained romantically involved for eight years before their marriage imploded in 2020.
Having escaped the frenzied glare of the spotlight in the 2000s, the now 40-year-old sisters have forged a behind-the-scenes career as fashion moguls. Above, in 2004
In a sign of their lingering bond with their old Full House cast, the Olsen twins were present at Bob Saget’s funeral in 2022 after he was found dead at 65 in a hotel room, having suffered what the medical examiners determined was head trauma.
‘They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep,’ said his family’s statement.
Stamos spoke glowingly about the ‘beautiful’ reunion he enjoyed with the Olsen twins at Saget’s memorial service during an interview on The Howard Stern Show.
He shared that Mary-Kate and Ashley ‘got us all together and said: “We love you. We loved our childhood. We’re grateful for you guys. Thank you for making those eight years so beautiful for us. We have such fond memories. We love you.” And everybody just needed to hear that, and I think it was Bob doing it.’
