On the Line by Serena Williams & Daniel Paisner

Author:Serena Williams & Daniel Paisner [WILLIAMS, SERENA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780446564021
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

The second development on the fashion front came with a gentle push from Venus. Actually, it was more like a shove. I was sitting at home at the house we now shared in Florida, twiddling my thumbs, not doing much of anything beyond tennis. I’d graduated a year early from high school and never really saw the need to continue with my education. I thought I knew what I needed to know—and what I didn’t know, I could learn soon enough.

But Venus had taken a different approach. After high school, she signed up for college. It wasn’t a full-time deal because of the demands of the tour, but once our season began to wind down in late fall she’d sign up for a couple courses at the Art Institute and use her time productively until the season started again in January. The way she worked it out, it was just enough time to complete the winter semester.

V was on me all the time to join her at school, but I couldn’t be bothered. She insisted it would be fun, but I was too busy doing nothing. I was back into Golden Girls mode, the way I’d been during that stretch when I was home-schooled in seventh and eighth grade. I was watching television, hanging out, playing tennis, watching television, hanging out, playing tennis… I’d sit down on the couch in front of the set, and I couldn’t get up if I tried. V would burst in after another one of her busy days and say, “You’re wasting your life, Serena.”

Oh my goodness, she was on me. And she had a point. I was such a slug! One day, she got so fed up with me she just signed me up for classes, without even discussing it. She came home that afternoon and said, “That’s it. I’m tired of watching you waste your time like this. You’re going to college.”

So that’s what I did, all on the back of V’s gentle shove, and it was a good thing, too, because I really was just wasting away in front of the television. Leave it to my big sister to know what was best for me. School was a blast. It was so much work, but at the same time it was so much fun. Most nights, we were there until eight or nine o’clock, working on some project or other. I studied design and fashion, so most of my courses had me sewing and drawing, learning the construction of a garment, considering which fabrics might work on which designs. I also took a sampling of liberal arts courses—math, science, and history—but most of my efforts were in the fashion curriculum, and I developed a real appreciation for design. In one class, we had to learn about more than one hundred different fabrics, so I came away with a great understanding of the manufacturing end of the business, and at the other end I really knew my stuff when I sat down with those Puma designers to develop a new line.

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