Some couples build worlds as shelter. Pauline Ghassemi, known as Pauluschka, and restaurateur Arash Ghassemi build them as gathering places. Between fabric, light, music, and conversation, their relationship becomes infrastructure, something that carries more than just the two of them. Fresh from their honeymoon, with February’s last romantic residue still in the air, the question isn’t whether their lives overlap but how they do so: what does it look like when two distinct aesthetics begin to negotiate a single wardrobe?

In the past, she’s described her music as “childish”, a word which, alone, undersells the complexity of her craft. Still, there is an irrefutable sense of playfulness to Oklou's music. Woven with pastoral flutes, trumpet fanfares, and harp-like arpeggios, her melodies often feel as though they belong to another age: quasi-medieval, baroque, folk-tinted—recalling the otherworldly nostalgia of a Runescape quest or an enchanted fairytale. “I’m attracted to very catchy melodies,” she explains. “There’s a faithfulness that touches me… the concept of finding the simple line that will really kick you in the heart.”