Twenty-seven-year-old Rosie and Lily Fortescue live pretty awesome lives if their Instagram accounts are anything to go by.
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The incredible lives of Rosie and Lily Fortescue, the 27-year-old Instagram-famous twins who have built their own fashion empires and fitness following
Their day-to-day lives of lunching, partying, holidaying, and training, in between building their own fashion empires is rather envy-inducing.
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Around 600,000 people follow the Chelsea-born sisters' daily pursuits, which includes lunching, partying, holidaying, and training, in between building their own fashion empires.
Rosie has built a successful fashion blog, At Fashion Forte, off the back of her days in the hugely popular reality TV series "Made in Chelsea" and now works with high-end brands, such as Jo Malone and Heidi Klein swimwear.
She is now focused on her jewellery collection Rosie Fortescue Jewellery and will soon be looking for investors to support its next step. It's currently self-funded with earnings she made on the show. She's still a one man band, apart from the help she gets from her mum.
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Lily, the lesser known of the two, lives an equally fantastic life with her Insta-famous "chiweenie" (a chichuahua mixed dachshund) and DJ/producer boyfriend in London's most exclusive address of Belgravia.
She previously ran her own knicker brand Cheek Frills, and has recently turned her hand to organising events at some of the capital's most exclusive private members clubs, in between holidays to Cannes, Ibiza, and Provence.
Business Insider caught up with the twins to find out what a day in the life of a Fortescue sister is really like.
The pair were born and bred in London, but went to Downe House boarding school in Hampshire, where Kate Middleton attended, and which costs over £30,000 a year. Lily said "It was an amazing all girls school, and we were fortunate enough to go there."
Now the 27-year-old twins live in affluent areas of West and Southwest London. In between working on their own fashion projects, they spend their time training, holidaying, lunching, and partying.
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Rosie is best known for her days in reality TV series "Made in Chelsea." She films much less these days but will go back for the odd special occasion, like during her friend Binky Felstead's pregnancy.
She runs the fashion blog At Fashion Forte which she started while on MIC. She currently has 537,000 followers on Instagram and frequently works with big brands including Heidi Klein swimwear and Jo Malone.
But right now, her main focus is her luxury jewellery line Rosie Fortescue Jewellery. You will rarely catch her without a piece, and perfectly manicured nails...
She launched her first collection at the and of 2015 and celebrated the launch of her latest range of 20 items in May at Brown's Hotel in Mayfair.
"I do collections as opposed to seasons. Jewellery isn’t seasonal it's a staple part of an outfit , and how I finish it off.
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"Some of the pieces follow on from last year's collection. Last year, some of my silver rings were so popular I've introduced them in rose gold. All of the rings can be stacked, there are cuffs, a pair of heartbeat earrings, and single band rings that have a vintage feel and were inspired by my a ring of my mother's that I had always tried on as a child.
"They all have a timeless elegance, but this collection is a little chunkier and statement," she says.
...you will also rarely catch her without a Gucci loafer in tow, with which she appears to have a major obsession.
Lily is also in the fashion business. She previously ran her own knicker brand Cheek Frills, and has recently turned her hand to events organising.
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Above, Lily is pictured at Annabel's a private members' club in Mayfair, that she often frequents.
"I work with some amazing up and coming fashion brands who are so talented and I've fallen into organising a lot of events using my past experience of having my own company for seven years," Lily said.
"I love working with Maddox Gallery in particular, they're such a dynamic team and I helped introduce them to their most recent artist and talent Danny Minnick."
They are both hugely into their fitness and train around four times a week. Rosie is a member of the Core Collective gym on Kensington High Street, and is also a fan of Kobox.
"The food there (Core Collective) is amazing! I’m trying to be healthy at the moment, and they have delicious stuff I can eat while I'm on the go, on a bus or in a taxi," Rosie said.
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"For me the gym is stress relief. It's that one time I do a 45 minute class with no phone and just completely switch off my mind, body and soul."
Lily lives with her boyfriend Seb and "chiweenie" (a chichuahua mixed dachshund) called Biggy Smalls in their flat in the exclusive Belgravia neighbourhood. Biggy Smalls' Instagram account @biggysmallsthechiweenie already has almost 4,000 followers of its own.
Lily is a Look magazine Influencer. She is seriously into her training and has earned over 56,000 Instagram followers with some of her snaps.
Lily said: "The man I owe everything to is Mark Garlick — I'd never lifted a weight until I met him three years ago! He changed my whole mindset to not just cardio but lifting weights and building strength."
She is a member of the exclusive Chelsea health club KX. "I train four days a week and I love it — twice with Mark and then either at my gym KX, I love the classes by Anna Maria or the blast classes at Lomax; Sophie and Joe are amazing." She also recently discovered yoga.
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The twins love nothing more than a holiday to switch off, relax and, show off all of their hard work of course...
Rosie's first holiday of the summer was to the Maldives. She said "I know it's not going to be great weather but it's a chance to escape and just do yoga somewhere beautiful for five days."
She's also planning a trip to India in October for a friend's wedding and to let off some steam right after London Fashion Week.
She said: "I'm still working out the trip, I want to do some travelling and I've found a stunning hotel in Jaipur right next to the Lake, and another one I'll stay in for the wedding is 600m from the Taj Mahal."
But like most socialites, they like to party, and their holiday calendars wouldn't be complete without a stint on the white isle...
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Above, Rosie partied with the Martinez Brothers while holidaying in Ibiza last summer.
Lily also has good reason to visit the party island. H
Lily attended the Cannes film festival in May, where she wore a number of show-stopping designer dresses and attended a string of glamorous events, including the Chopard party.
Lily's favourite place to holiday are the Greek islands and Provence where the family rents a house every year. "We watch the running of the bulls in Mausanne together, Seb comes out for a bit and the amazing French lunches!"
Rosie added: "The family summer holiday to the South of France is total down time, we drive out there and take the dog."
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Below, Rosie is pictured in Provence last year sampling the local rosé.
The pair are big on their swimwear brands, Monday Swimwear, Heidi Klein and Hunza-G are all firm favourites.
In addition to her own holidays, through her blogging Rosie will often be invited on press trips abroad.
The Fortescue twins are both real foodies. The Italian pasta dish "spaghetti alle vongole" is one of their favourites, occasionally accompanied with an Aperol Spritz. Rosie jokes that she once ate three kilos of clams for breakfast.
"Ideally I would eat cheese every day, I'm literally obsessed with it, but I had to give dairy up," Rosie said. "As I'm trying to be healthy I eat loads of fish, chicken, and rice with loads of spices and seasoning."
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"I love cooking for friends, it's a simple thing being able to catch up with friends and actually speak to them" she said.
Rosie adds: "There's also nothing better than a Sunday lunch at the pub with friends and a couple of glasses of red. I'll get in a food coma, come home and work, that's heaven for me! I can't just switch off and work 9-5. She adds: "I do have to always be working with my business, or replying to Instagram comments for example, but thankfully I love what I do."
Lily says: "I love food. I swear I think about it 24/7. I am lucky with my metabolism so as long as I don't over eat, I try and not be too hard on myself. I try and eat as much vegetables as possible and eat my carbs in the morning!" But she does allow herself the odd treat day...
The Sands Ends pub in Fulham is one of Lily's favourite haunts.
"I love to escape to the country, if we can, with Biggy Smalls. If we're in London, I love walking around the Serpentine and the food at the Sands End is amazing!"
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The pub, pictured above, is popular among fellow ex-MIC crew Hugo Taylor and Millie Mackintosh, who are also both best friends of the Fortescue twins, naturally.
Rosie enjoys the blogger's perks of lots of free beauty products. And likes little more than a good soak at the end of a long day buzzing around the capital promoting her jewellery brand.
Despite their close bond, the Fortescue twins say they don't get as much time together as they would like, given their hectic schedules.
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