THE LONELY road of a designer can be overwhelming. Yet during these trials you ask yourself if this is what you truly want and your actions give back the answer. Gina Velasco has wanted to be a designer since she was eleven. She was born in Puerto Rico to designer parents. “I remember being eleven and some of my sketches were of ugly girls. I remember my English teacher must have thought something was wrong. She would say, “Gina, I think she has short legs”, laughs Gina. She started designing her own stuff while her mother, a design teacher, assisted.