Lolita Cros, an independent curator and art dealer based in New York, and Alice Moitié, a director and photographer based in Paris are best friends but also cousins. This perhaps helps to explain the fact that they’ve been able to maintain such a strong long-distance relationship for so many years. In fact, they’d describe themselves as something like sisters — ones who fight and taunt each other in the name of love. “There’s video footage of us fighting when we’re around two,” says Lolita. “We're not great walkers yet, but we’re dancing and singing in the mirror — and beating each other up.”

Although they grew up together as small children, from the ages of 11 to 18, their families moved apart. But they stayed in touch on Facebook, and reconnected when they happened to run into each other one day in Paris. The rest is history.

You’re family, so you know each other super well. But is there anything that you've learned about the other over time that has surprised you?

Alice: We stopped seeing each other for, like, ten years. But when I ran into her, and we reconnected, it was weird because we had pretty much the same sense of humor, even though we’d lived completely different lives. It's the same French humor. Also, weirdly enough, even her friends in New York are kind of the same friends as mine. Like, I have friends who know Lolita from other people, which is super weird.

Lolita: Yeah, it's like, you can't take Paris out of a girl, but you can take the girl out of Paris, or whatever. We kept running into each other every time we were separated. We also both ended up in creative fields, which I think is a big thing. I have a creative family, and we were raised with that being an option for life. But it's still interesting that we're both self-employed and we're around creative people at all times.

When was the last time you called the other and why?

Lolita: I called two weeks ago to ask if she was coming to Christmas.

Alice: And also to gossip. Always. But only about us and our boyfriends.

If your friendship or relationship was a song, which song would it be?

Alice: “Partir Un Jour” by 2be3.

Lolita: Or a Spice Girls song: “Viva Forever.”

Alice: I was the red head. She was my favorite. I wanted to be her so bad.

Lolita: Baby Spice and Sporty Spice were probably my favorite.

What's your favorite trip you've ever taken together?

Alice: Marrakesh?

Lolita: But we fought a lot. I guess we fought less in Marrakesh. I remember having a long conversation with you and your mom in your hotel room. So that was a nice memory.

Alice: The food! The breakfast.

Lolita: I also remember Corsica.

Alice: Oh, yeah. But it was windy. That's my memory of Corsica.

Lolita: I don't remember that. I just remember fighting.

What were all these fights over?

Lolita: That one I remember in Corsica was about socks. The dumbest things.

Alice: Always. Also, we were jealous of each other. I was super jealous of Lolita because she had a princess bed, which was just one that had a mosquito net over it. But when I was little, it was the best. And she was jealous because I could wear platform shoes when I was nine. But her mom wouldn't allow her. So we were always fighting about something the other had. Which, thankfully it's not the same anymore. I'm really happy Lolita is so successful. I'm super proud. All my friends were very disappointed when she got married. She was always my hot American cousin.