I can make jeans, T-shirt look like couture: Kareena Kapoor Khan

Mumbai (IANS): Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan believes reinvention -- in her personal and professional life -- has driven her survival as a star in showbiz. She says she has the self-confidence to make even everyday fashion look like couture. Kareena, in an interview to IANS here, said she finds her elder sister Karisma “more of a fashion icon” between the two, without a second thought. “Most of the time you will see me in jeans and a T-shirt. It’s beside the point that I can make jeans and a T-shirt also look like couture.

“I know I have that... I can... It’s just that I don’t like dressing up,” she said, just ahead of a glamorous showstopper moment at the Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2019 here on Sunday night.

From her maiden film “Refugee”, which saw in her in bare minimum make-up, to Karan Johar’s “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...” -- in which he presented her as the uber stylish Pooja aka Poo -- Kareena has been fearless about trying different looks.

“It’s (the fearlessness is) a part of being successful... Actually, I was trying to do a different kind of stuff at a very early stage. In fact, I’d say I was very experimental when I was 19. 

“’Refugee’ was a very experimental launch. It was not the typical glamorous girl. But again, I think there would have been no fun if there was no fear or excitement.

“It is good to be a fearless actor, but it is good to have a little bit fear so that your performance level is always high,” added the actress.

Reinvention is something she takes seriously. “If I can’t reinvent as a person, I cannot be a better actor. The reason I feel that I have been in this business through decades and still been here is only that of reinvention. “To constantly reinvent as a human being is so important,” averred the actress, for whom marriage and motherhood have been life-changing.