What happens when your lover becomes your business partner? | In Conversation with Mesdyven & Roe

What happens when your lover becomes your business partner? There’s something incredibly romantic about building something with the person you love. Until the business follows you home. For this Roe conversation, Sophia sits down with Manuel, Co-Founder & Creative Director, and Sandra, Co-Founder & PR of Mesdyven, inside their Barcelona showroom to talk about building a fashion brand together, growing up between cultures, ambition, personal style, relationships, and what happens when the person beside you is also the person building the dream with you. Mesdyven began with an idea deeply personal to Manuel: creating a space for people who exist “between two worlds.” What started with his experience of growing up between Swiss and Albanian cultures has evolved into a fashion universe built around individuality, intention and freedom of expression. But somewhere along the way, Mesdyven also became something else: a shared dream. And that raises a much bigger question. Can you build a business with the person you love without letting the business consume the relationship? In this conversation, we talk about admiration, respect, disagreement, communication, ambition, learning from each other, and what it really means to build a life in the same direction. 00:04 — Growing Up Between Two Cultures & Finding Confidence in the In-Between 01:20 — Why Mesdyven Was Created as a Perspective, Not Simply Another Fashion Brand 09:17 — Building a Business With Your Romantic Partner 12:15 — Why Admiration & Respect Matter as Much as Love 19:01 — Disagreement, Communication & Growing Together 26:02 — Dressing for Who You Are vs. Who You Want to Become 28:41 — Personal Style, Trends & The Algorithm 34:20 — Creating Timeless Pieces Instead of Chasing Seasons 35:45 — The Ambition to Turn Mesdyven Into an Entire Universe 41:58 — Barcelona as a Source of Creative Freedom 46:04 — What Their Younger Selves Would Think of the Lives They're Building Today Maybe building a business together isn't really about finding someone who sees everything the way you do. Maybe it's about finding someone you trust enough to row in the same direction. 🔗 Read more stories and conversations with creatives on https://www.roemagazine.com Follow Mesdyven on Instagram   / mesdyven   In collaboration with   / roemagazine   Published by    / @roemagazine   💌 DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE Tap the bell to get notified every time a new Roe video drops. For more conversations, essays and stories exploring modern relationships, creativity, identity and the culture shaping the way we live today. ❤️ EXPLORE MORE Still haven’t subscribed to Roe on YouTube? ►► /    / @roemagazine   Visit Roe Magazine ►► https://www.roemagazine.com Follow Roe Magazine on Instagram ►► /   / roemagazine   ABOUT ROE MAGAZINE Roe is a publication for creatives and the culturally curious, through essays, short films & conversations.