“We always do,” Chanel replies.

Chanel, seated across from her, laughs. “And I’m trying to make her break. She wants me still. I refuse.”

“We don’t have boundaries,” Gal says. “Everyone talks about work-life balance. We have work-life integration . Chanel sleeps on my couch when she’s between apartments. I edit her audition tapes. We fight about exposure and shutter speed the way couples fight about dishes.”

That risk has paid off. They’ve shot campaigns for , Adidas , and Mugler —each one unmistakably theirs. One Mugler campaign, shot in a desolate Mojave gas station at dusk, featured Chanel climbing a chain-link fence in 6-inch heels. The brief from Mugler had requested “elegant motion.” Gal and Chanel delivered “beautiful trespassing.”