Every angle of the Proenza Schouler partnership has been debated and dissected, with people clamoring to know how they divide responsibilities, trying to figure out if one is the creative genius and one the baggage. But it’s kind of like asking which leg is more important for sprinting. They each produce 100 sketches per season and then compare notes. After 10 years together, they now sketch drawings that would be impossible to tell apart if not for the heads. (McCollough draws his women in profile, Hernandez’s face forward). As they rattle off influences, they pick up each others’ dangling participles the way twins might. They even claim to split the driving, stopping at a gas station midway to swap. It’s no surprise that when one lit up a cigarette over Thanksgiving — after a two-year hiatus — the other did as well. (via)