Would You Match Outfits With Your Significant Other?

Fashion in relationships can be a funny thing. Maybe you love your significant other’s style, even though it doesn’t really line up with your own. Or perhaps you’ve fought tooth and nail to get them to get rid of that one piece of clothing you hate or have bought them a few new replacement pieces as gifts just to get the point across. Then there are the couples whose style syncs up as well as their personalities do.

If you’ve ever visited South Korea, you may have noticed some couples dress noticeably alike — that’s because many use a “couple look” to show the world they’re an item. But it’s not just happening in Asia. French matching couple and creative photography duo Nelson Tiberghien and Isabelle Chaput — or Young Emperors, as they’re known on Instagram — often share their coordinating looks. Though the couple never set out for internet fame (in just five short months they’ve earned 14K followers), they did notice that their outfits started to coordinate the more they spent time together and worked together — and eventually fell in love. Often featuring denim, coordinating color palettes, and unisex staples like button-up shirts, the two make waking up and matching (sometimes, even down to the nail art) look easy.

How did your matching theme come about?
“We met in photography school and started working together. From the beginning, we noticed that we would sometimes wear matching outfits by accident. To us, that represented a connection that we had. When we fell in love and founded our company, we used this as a way to create a visual representation of our union in work and in life, as a team and as a family. We also got inspired by the Korean culture of matching couples who use this as a means of expression of their love towards each other. We have been doing it for about three-and-a-half years now, but we only have been showing it on Instagram for the past five months since we created @young_emperors.”

What is the best part about building this platform together and dressing alike? What’s the worst?
“It might sound cheesy, but there is no bad part for us really, as we started to do it very naturally and we have been doing it organically for the past three years. It’s become a habit more than an actual effort! Building this platform was just a way of letting people see what we do on a daily basis. The best part is that we get to show the world who we are and that, in return, we get messages from people all over the world; we’ve made so many new friendships, and, for us, it is really amazing to be able to experience these interactions.

“We always experienced social media as a couple more than individuals! We do have private personal accounts as well but we don’t really use them for the same reasons. We use them mainly to chat with friends.”

What designers or trends do you love, either respectively or collectively?
“We love a lot of different trends, but right now I think we are more inspired by a mix of things, from foreign countries like Korea and China and young international designers to unisex clothing and the mixing of genders (we are inspired by the idea of breaking the boundaries of binary gender clothing). We also really enjoy the clashing of what is considered ‘elegant’ or ‘luxurious’ with what is considered ‘vulgar’ or ‘cheap.’ Of course, as French people, we cannot forget to mention Jacquemus, whom we love.”