As the Creative Director of Nike Women’s Spring Zonal Strength Tights campaign, FKA twigs has conceptualized, directed, performed and sound tracked a collection of work that sheds light on the power of modern movement and defines sport as an important channel of expression, “do you believe in more?”

It’s the same with any creative or athletic endeavour. It’s not about the moment you jump off the diving board. It’s not about any one beat you’ve produced. It’s about the moments before that – preparation is the training, and opportunity is the moment you reach your fastest time or show how good your beat is.

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Since as early as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with training and taking classes. When I was three years old, I started taking dance classes at a local youth center, and by the time I turned seven, I was training in six different dance styles. Then I started acting. By the time I was eight or nine, I was singing.

When other people wanted to go on holiday or hang out with their friends in the park, l just wanted to take every class that was available.

When Nike reached out to me about collaborating on this project, I saw it as an opportunity to inspire people who want to use their bodies in a positive way. I cast a group of amazing people who take their physicality seriously and have their own sense of style, to push people to be healthy and understand that, through any genre of sport, they can be the best versions of themselves.

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You must be incredibly in tune with yourself and focused to be able to compete or create — vulnerability and strength have a lot to do with this. As an athlete in your final moments of competition, everything you’ve done, everything your parents have sacrificed and everyone who has supported you are there in that one second. You should accept your destiny and have both the physical power and willpower to do what you need to do.