when i saw that my career was going nowhere, i really had a nervous break down stop i was lost. and fashion was the thing that really took the place for me of skating, it really gave me of skating, it really gave me all those components, you know, shows, and music, and editing, and design and creativity, and storytelling, all the things i loved about skating, i took with me into fashion. my fashion has not been limited to 2 dimensional sketches or evenjust been limited to 2 dimensional sketches or even just draping, it s been about story, emotion, it s been about story, emotion, it s been about perhaps romance, in many ways, and, i thinka romance, in many ways, and, i think a lot of daring. i think i ve been fairly fearless. and that just sort of i ve been fairly fearless. and thatjust sort of having been an athlete, and part of having been a woman, i think, who has lived my life. ithink
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