This Is What Makes Priyanka Chopra Confident on the Red Carpet

Priyanka Chopra has had one hell of a year, starting with her role in Quantico, continuing onto a number of showstopping red carpets and culminating in being named InStyle’s Breakthrough Style Star at the magazine’s annual awards in L.A. Monday night. But the actress, who’s had a 15-year career as a global superstar before landing a TV show in the U.S., jokes that the word breakthrough is really all relative.

“I don’t think that in the last one year I suddenly become more stylish, no,” she tells PeopleStyle. “I think I always had an inherent style, that my clothes need to make me feel comfortable, that’s something I’ve always had. I guess once I came to America, America has become a little bit more aware about my style. My style stayed the same!”

And being comfortable and confident in her clothing is her through-line in all her many varied red carpet looks. “I am not someone who is like, ‘I want to break the internet with what I am wearing!’ I don’t think like that,” she says. “I wear what I feel, and I need to feel my best in what I wear. I decide on my clothes based on that. I’ve had lot of great reviews for what I wear but I really don’t wear my clothes for that reason. I pick outfits to feel the best that I can feel and I think that’s the only way to wear clothes. You can’t overthink it.”

That’s not to say she doesn’t have a few favorites from the past year, though: “I definitely think that the Emmys were one of my favorite looks this year — it was a gorgeous custom Jason Wu,” she says of the look above. “The Oscars — it was a really, really beautiful Zuhair Murad. The Billboard Awards, I wore this amazing Versace … I was feeling a little bloaty that day so we went for an outfit that was just so breezy, and I wore a braid which was so edgy. I react to how I am feeling the day of.”

This article originally appeared on People.com