‘I love bling, but I wouldn’t overdo it’
Shamita Shetty
Actor
Shamita Shetty’s career choice has influenced her way of dressing and accessorizing. Bollywood loves bling, and the younger Shetty sister is no exception. But it’s not the blinding, all-over shine like many of her
filmi colleagues. Shetty’s is a more updated style; she understands the word restraint and won’t wear a necklace if her earrings are making a statement.
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Added to that, she has a stylist who is on call 24/7—her sister Shilpa. “Most of the time you see me out, I’m styled by her. She has a great knack of putting things together and adding that one element which makes the outfit stand out,” the 29-year-old says.
Shetty admits she doesn’t experiment as much as her elder sister. She laughs about a what-was-I-thinking moment she had at a recent premier she attended. “Last season yellow was really in and it took a lot of guts for me to buy and wear a yellow bag and shoes. As I was unsure of wearing such a bright colour, I put it together wrong.”
But she doesn’t often go wrong when she sticks to fitted dresses with stilettos, diamonds and metallic clutches. Shetty’s a shoe fiend and though she doesn’t know the size of her collection (“I’m afraid to count, it would make me feel guilty”), she reveals she has to keep ordering new cabinets to house her shoes.
Shetty says she and her sister, a watch and bag lover, do swap accessories. “Currently I have my eye on her Limelight clutch by Louis Vuitton.”
—Parizaad Khan
Your style is bling like Shamita’s if:
•You would accessorize a black dress with dangling diamond earrings and a diamond bracelet. Shetty says she would never wear accessories in very bright colours with black, so no coloured shoes. But she would add some element of gold, such as her favourite black stilettos with gold details. She would wear a chunky watch with diamonds—“Bling looks great with black.”
•Your daily accessories include a bit (or a lot) of ice. Shetty loves diamonds and says she almost never takes off her solitaire earrings, and has a diamond tennis bracelet on at all times. Added to this, her watches and sunglasses are embellished with diamonds or crystals.
•You would never wear costume jewellery. “I hate junk jewellery and only wear it for a shoot,” she says.
•You have a serious thing for high-heeled shoes. “I don’t know what it is with girls and shoes. I honestly don’t know how many pairs I have,” she says. Shetty loves stilettos; “they kill my back, but I can’t stop.”
• Your handbag is more likely than not to be by a luxury label. Shetty loves Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Chanel. “I saw how the LV bags are created at their factory and realized that the price is justified. They last forever and are quite timeless.”