Where she feels most herself has always been near water. Ōhōpe, where she grew up. The beach with her family. Home with her husband and their dog. The ocean in any form. It is not a coincidence that the sport she gave her life to takes place on it. There is something about being near water, she says, that brings everything back to centre.

Style for Lisa is an extension of that same instinct for ease. Years of training gear have given her a clear picture of what she reaches for when the choice is hers. A great pair of barrel jeans. A vintage tee. A jacket that works from coffee to a meeting without asking anything more of the person wearing it. Knit jumpers in winter. A pantsuit when the occasion calls for something sharper.

"I definitely teeter on the side of casual smart. It's hard not to be an athlete and be in light gear every day. But I'm getting a bit more elevated these days."

What is not making the cut is equally clear. Florals. Bright prints. Anything that fights rather than follows. She says it plainly and without apology, the same directness she brings to everything else. She knows what works on her body and what does not and she has long since stopped pretending otherwise.