Is it stopping or is it getting worse?
It progressed over 8 years and has only been in my arms.
I cross my fingers – no pun on words – that it won't go to my legs.
But at the end of they day, technology is moving so fast.
I have so much faith to be able to fix this if it does go to my leg.
In which direction do you try to use technology?
In my everyday life I use technology, from using Siri to speak into my phone ...
I have a robot that feeds me food. That was created. It's quite amazing and one of its kind.
So Open Style Lab?
This is your baby?
Yes, this is my baby. – Share with us a little bit.
I needed a winter coat that i could put on without the use of my arms.
And I was introduced to Grace. She is one of the founders of Open Style Lab at Parsons.
And she helped with a team of students to create a coat, that I'm able to put on without the use of my arms.
They put together a team. An occupational therapist, a product designer, and a fashion designer
to make something that's functional and fashionable. It's quite a beautiful coat.
It allows me to live alone. The one thing I couldn't hack was clothing.
Really, my whole life is just trying to make the world less disabled.
At the end of the day it's the world that makes me disabled, because products are not made for me.
But one fifth of the world identifies as having a disability.
Brands aren't really focusing on that and getting those statistics out there is what I try to do every day.
We were just talking about you, a role model for young girls or young boys, I mean, whomever.
How do you do this?
I really thought I need to be out there, get my word out there and show
that you can be smart, cute, fun, and disabled.
And get that message out there, so that there is correct media representation.
That's how I get my message out there is through a lot of media
so that kids can look on Instagram and see a person that's thriving with a disability.
It changes the mentality of everyone else.
I'm curious. You are living in New York. – Yes.
We are very much interested in the further development, the future of mobility.
Anything you would like to share with us as a young customer, a person potentially interested in our brand.
What we can do, should do and offer for the future.
I think that autonomous cars, as you're working on now, assuming you have some of the best autonomous cars,
it would be amazing to have voice activation for all of the features in the car.
I know you have it for calling and radio and things like that,
but it would be amazing to be able to open the doors using your voice.
As technology gets better, you see with Alexa and different things, can we put that into cars?
Maybe that's a little bit selfish, because that would help me. But I think it would be wonderful.
No, I think that's really very interesting. And this is absolutely one path we will pursue.
As of now already, so we just launched it in Las Vegas. I don't know whether you ... – Yes, I did.
It's the first big step into that. We can't open the door by speech yet,
but that's absolutely something that we will look into.
Equality is one very important point. For me it's very important that we have diverse teams, yes.
This is men and women, this is young and old, this is local people with international people.
I think it's all about this diversity, because you were talking about how to unlock creativity.
Yes, women play a very important role in that, because we haven't realised our full potential up to now.
We need to unlock the potential. I think it's really funny when I talk about disability and representation,
no one ever realises that the typewriter was created for someone with a disability,
Siri was created for someone with a disability, but these things can be used for everyone.
So we should always have someone with a disability on a team,
always have a woman, always have someone that has a global lifestyle on a team,
because it just really makes it better. The product is always so much better.
Yes, I truly believe in that.
Will you continue your so-called double career in OSL and in your agency?
Is there any future that you're foresee? – Definitely.
I definitely think, this is the happiest I have ever been in my life and people are shocked when I say that ...
Why are they shocked?
Because they think with disability I should be sad and sitting at home.
But really I'm just so happy to have an impact and a purpose in my life.
I think, until I start my own family, I know that will be hard to have these two jobs.
But right now, I will spend every waking moment trying to change the world and their perspective on disability.
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