The story goes thus. Smalltown girl from the hills comes to tinseltown. She walks through the fashion district and halts in front of a red Kangana
Moschino dress. It calls out to her seductively. The tag says Rs 80,000 — the exact amount left in her account. Kangana Ranaut buys the dress. Food will have to wait.
It was a sartorial quirk that has certainly stood the 22-year-old in good stead. Three years into Bollywood and the waif-like beauty is already being serenaded for a unique diva-like appeal and superb style sense. Her model-like figure enhances even the most outrageous colours and cuts. Not to mention the hair. While actresses preferred the ironed, poker-straight mane, Kangana has stayed with her spirals. Going against the tide not just in her choice of roles, but also in matters of style.
While living in the small valley in Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh was the farthest the Ranauts could consider as fashion mecca. Her father would take them there for shopping. Young Kangana would devour every magazine she could lay her hands on while working in a beauty parlour, looking closely at movie posters pasted on walls.
But thankfully, after her foray into the industry, her sensibilities weren’t fashioned by Bollywood’s never-ending love affair with bling. No chiffon, swarowski-studded saris for her; Kangana made a splash in a swish of silk gowns and slashed-to-the-navel necklines; her unruly hair piled on top of her head like a crown. She wasn’t doing it for shock value; that’s just the way she is.
By the next year, everyone was wearing gowns at movie dos. Her clothescape is soiled only by a canary yellow outfit with a bikini top and yellow sash around her neck. A small price to pay for experimentation. “I dress according to my moods. When
I wear a black dress, it’s because I feel stark. At most, I’ll sit with Rick (Roy) and tell him what I have in mind and we’ll come up with something.”
Her icons are international — Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham. “I wear white shirt, shorts and bowler hat when I’m abroad”. Closer home, “Rita (Dhody) really knows how to dress for the occasion,” she says.
While her slim figure has mostly been draped in western ensembles Kangana loves saris too. “But it’s just too much to mind. Maybe I’ll wear them when I’m older and have two kids!”
Her obsession with clothes sees her following TV and magazines, where a favourite design is quickly sketched for future inspiration. Her fashion diktat: never shy to experiment. “There is really no such thing as a badly dressed person, only a constantly badly dressed person. I love women with short-short hair who wear oversized shirts with skinny pants; women in hand-blocked kurtas and kajal. I love all kinds of clothes.” And all kinds of clothes love her.
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