Every fairytale has a hinge: one small object on which the entire story turns. For Cinderella, it is the glass slipper. For Fizzy Goblet, it was an invitation to ask a more interesting question. What if the slipper had been a jutti?

The answer is the brand’s latest festive collection, created in collaboration with Kareena Kapoor Khan, and it is as playful as the premise suggests. It takes one of the world’s most familiar stories and relocates it, gently and with considerable craft, to India.

A Story Retold, Not Just Retailed

Plenty of brands borrow from fairytales. Fewer rework the central image. By replacing the glass slipper with the jutti, a silhouette deeply rooted in India’s cultural imagination, Fizzy Goblet is doing more than adding a theme to a campaign. It is arguing that the most iconic shoe in popular storytelling already has an Indian equivalent, one that has been walking through weddings, festivals and family photographs for generations, and that continues to evolve with the modern Indian woman.

Kareena as Cinderella

At the centre of the reinterpretation is Kareena Kapoor Khan, who steps into Fizzy Goblet’s version of Cinderella. Her role, the brand is careful to note, goes beyond being the face of the campaign. She was closely involved in the curation and design selection of the collection, bringing her own perspective on Indian fashion and contemporary dressing to the process. The partnership is positioned as a shared creative collaboration rather than a conventional celebrity endorsement, a distinction that, if the pieces bear it out, makes for a more compelling story than a famous face on a banner.

What’s in the Collection

The festive range bridges contemporary design and regal Indian aesthetics across four categories: juttis, heels, flats and bags. The craft vocabulary is rich and tactile. Traditional zardozi and hand embroidery sit alongside mirrorwork, pearls and tassels, with elevated 3D florals worked onto velvets, tissue silks and mesh. Playful patchwork adds a lighter, more contemporary note.

The colour story begins in familiar festive territory, with golds, silvers and champagne forming the base, then breaks into pops of brighter hues across every silhouette. The effect, on paper, is a collection that can be as quiet or as theatrical as the wearer chooses.

Dressed for the Whole Season

Part of what makes the collection relevant is its range. It is designed to cover a spectrum of celebrations: lighter festive gatherings, bridesmaid moments, grand weddings and bridal wear. In a season when a single wardrobe may need to carry a Diwali evening, a cousin’s sangeet and a family wedding in quick succession, footwear and accessories that can shift in register from relaxed to regal are a practical advantage.

The Larger Idea

What the collection ultimately articulates is a view of occasion wear that Fizzy Goblet describes as personal, expressive and open to interpretation. The fairytale is the frame, but the craftsmanship is the substance. A jutti stitched in zardozi and finished in pearls does not need a story to justify it, though it is a pleasure to be handed one.

Cinderella, after all, only needed one shoe to change her fortunes. Fizzy Goblet is betting that, in India, she would have reached for something embroidered.

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