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In your relationship with Moncler, it looks like you’re trying to
blur the lines between ski fashion and street fashion.
LPB: One hundred percent! I’m trying to change the way people
perceive the sport of skiing, sports in general, and fashion. The
beauty for me, and the difference between fashion and sport,
is that in one I’m measured by hundredths of a second–it’s as
black and white as it gets. The other is subjective — it has no
leaderboard, it has no scoreboard. I find it so beautiful to be
able to merge the art of these spaces into a new space that I
think is yet to exist. It goes without saying how excited I am to
be able to pursue such a dream with a brand like Moncler.
Are you hoping to inspire others by expressing your truest self on
the world stage — dancing, laughing, loving life?
LPB: I’m just trying to go out there and be myself every single
day. If I’m out here doing “me”, I’m going to have the biggest
smile on my face and I’m going to be able to have the effect that
I’m seeking. I’m trying to inspire people all around the world,
and you can’t do that by limiting and restricting yourself –
hence why I’m so happy that I get to be such a free spirit and
free soul, out in this amazing game, and just promote who I am.
If you could change one thing about ski racing, what would it be?
LPB: I’d enhance the freedom. I’d give a lot more freedom to the
amazing athletes out here striving, working every single day
to become exceptional. If you were to give the other athletes
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as much of the freedom that I get to have now… man, it would
be so colorful, and the sport would have so much personality.
I think the inspiration to all the viewers and fans of the sport
would be doubled.
One last thing, it’s been said you're the best dressed man on the
World Cup tour. How does that make you feel?
LPB: I’d agree!
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