KATIE'S SWEET STYLE

She became a fashion icon over the years but never wanted to be overtly sexy

- MAXINE PETERS

SHE'S been dishing out fashion goals ever since her Joey Potter days on Dawson's Creek when she drove Pacey and Dawson nuts.

The little tank tops, the vests, the jeans, the midriff-barers - Katie Holmes was pure 1990s magic rolled up in adorable girlnext-doorness.

Fast forward 20-something years and she's still having the same kind of effect.

Some people put on clothes and look good, others look okay, but Katie is pretty much fashion fabulousness in everything she wears. 

Jeans, sneakers, pumps, heels, coats, suits, little yellow frocks, funny frilly things with ankle boots that would make lesser mortals look frumpy – she’s been there, done that and got the sassy T-shirt. 

But it was never her intention to draw attention to her looks, Katie says. “I didn’t want to be the sexy young thing.

“I am not sexy,” she says in a new interview with Glamour magazine.

“I used to have a friend of mine come to all my photo shoots to make sure they didn’t try to make me that way.” 

Katie (44) has always shunned becoming a sex symbol, refusing to bare too much flesh on screen, to get steamy between the sheets with leading men or wear anything too figure-hugging. 

Yet she’s no wallflower by any measure and she gets attention wherever she goes – and for whatever she wears.