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"Ever since Diane Kruger hit the Hollywood circuit in 2004 with her first big American role as Helen of Troy in Troy (alongside Brad Pitt), fashion editors have, well, been smitten. She&amp;amp;#8217;s flashy but not trendy, chic but effortlessly so. &amp;amp;#8220;Her red-carpet looks always have just a hint of skin,&amp;amp;#8221; wrote Tracey Lomrantz last fall on the Glamour.com blog Slaves to Fashion. [They&amp;amp;#8217;re] suggestive but not in your face. It&amp;amp;#8217;s one of the many, many reasons I think she&amp;amp;#8217;s a style star.&amp;amp;#8221; And women agree. As one commenter put it when we published our umpteenth Diane Do: &amp;amp;#8220;Dear Diane, Can I be you? Please?&amp;amp;#8221; Now the woman whom every designer wants to dress and every director wants to cast is having her big moment. She&amp;amp;#8217;s starring in the thriller Unknown, in which she plays a hard-as-nails Bosnian, with Liam Neeson, and just nabbed the big-deal role of Marie Antoinette in the upcoming Farewell, My Queen. On the verge of all this, she sat down over cappuccino to share with us her personal-style secrets&amp;amp;#8212;including how she persuaded her boyfriend, former Dawson&amp;amp;#8217;s Creek star Joshua Jackson, to start wearing, yes, ascots. Meet her, love her, copy her outfits! Glamour: It&amp;amp;#8217;s a rainy afternoon in Los Angeles, at the 101 Coffee Shop. This is your local hangout? Diane Kruger: It is. It&amp;amp;#8217;s a little hipster, but I love it. Glamour: What do you think about American cappuccino compared with a European one? Diane Kruger: I think they&amp;amp;#8217;re great. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not a snob. Glamour: No, you don&amp;amp;#8217;t seem like one. But you are super sophisticated. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s talk about style and fashion. Today I have to say you&amp;amp;#8230; Diane Kruger: I dressed down? Glamour: Cardigan, button-down shirt, ballet flats. Diane Kruger: What can I say? I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know about style. I know about my personal style. Glamour: But you&amp;amp;#8217;ve had exposure to a certain level of design. It&amp;amp;#8217;s one thing to do a runway show. But Karl Lagerfeld and Francisco Costa are your friends. Diane Kruger: I truly, genuinely like clothes. Making them is an art form, and wearing them is a form of self-expression. I find it very emotional because I can remember moments in my life&amp;amp;#8212;my mood, how I felt&amp;amp;#8212;through these clothes. Glamour: Tell me about your personal style. If there were one Diane Kruger look, what would it be? Diane Kruger: A well-cut dress. It&amp;amp;#8217;s all about the cut. I love three-quarter sleeves. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity, and there&amp;amp;#8217;s a lot of that here [in L.A.]. Glamour: But it is fun to splurge sometimes. Diane Kruger: I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t agree more! The biggest fashion purchase I ever made I thought about for six years. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not kidding. All my life I wanted to own an Herm&amp;amp;egrave;s Constance bag, and when I signed with Calvin Klein, I decided this was the time that I could afford it. I truly broke a sweat when I paid for it. Glamour: On the other hand, do you go to the drugstore? What do you love there? Diane Kruger: I think big sunglasses are great at the drugstore. Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s your cheap thrill for clothes? Diane Kruger: I go to Urban Outfitters. Or Forever 21&amp;amp;#8212;I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s cool. Glamour: You really don&amp;amp;#8217;t have a stylist? Diane Kruger: No. Glamour: Really, truly? Diane Kruger: Really, truly, no. Only for the Oscars or something like that, or a promotional tour for a movie when I&amp;amp;#8217;m traveling for six weeks and I need 25 outfits just for press days and 10 premieres. But I will tell them what I want. Glamour: Do you have any current fashion obsessions? Diane Kruger: I&amp;amp;#8217;m really into oxfords right now&amp;amp;#8212;really classic, with a heavy sole. Glamour: Any favorite designers? Diane Kruger: Chanel, for sure. Calvin. And I love Jason Wu. Glamour: Let&amp;amp;#8217;s talk about Josh&amp;amp;#8217;s style. He has kicked up his look since he&amp;amp;#8217;s been with you, don&amp;amp;#8217;t you think? Diane Kruger: For sure. When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s nice. Glamour: Did you restyle him? Did you say, &amp;amp;#8220;Josh, pull it together&amp;amp;#8221;? Diane Kruger: We go shopping. But he likes it. I definitely wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t fond of these blue sneakers that he wore all the time for about a year and a half. Glamour: Gone? Diane Kruger: No. They&amp;amp;#8217;re weekend shoes. [Laughs.] He was a hoarder, which most men are, I think. He had sneakers from when he was 15. Glamour: You made Josh throw out his favorite stuff from when he was 15? Diane Kruger: Well, yes. It didn&amp;amp;#8217;t fit him anymore. [Laughs.] The truth is, if you just tell men, &amp;amp;#8220;Oh, this looks really good on you,&amp;amp;#8221; they find what to wear. Glamour: Now let&amp;amp;#8217;s talk about life. You&amp;amp;#8217;ve had a lot of living behind you at just 34. It&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of remarkable. Did you always want to act? Diane Kruger: I wanted to be onstage. I&amp;amp;#8217;m from a small village [in Germany], and it never occurred to me that you could actually make a living performing. It was a hobby. I always thought you had to live in Hollywood. So the urge really came later, when I became a model. Glamour: You left home at 15, 16? Diane Kruger: I started modeling part-time; I was 15. My mom said, &amp;amp;#8220;You can take a year off from school and go to Paris.&amp;amp;#8221; I wanted to see the world. Glamour: You&amp;amp;#8217;ve talked before about your father and how he had a drinking problem. How did that affect your family? Diane Kruger: My mother, brother and I left [together] when I was 13. It was very difficult, and certainly financially that wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t easy on my mother&amp;amp;#8230;. Ballet kept me very disciplined&amp;amp;#8212;I had a passion. But I also made a lot of boys pay for my father&amp;amp;#8217;s behavior. Glamour: Because you were angry? Diane Kruger: I was never able to be tied down. I&amp;amp;#8217;m still very independent. Looking back, I made mistakes. Glamour: In what sense? Diane Kruger: I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t accept that they were for real, when they were, more often than not. I would pull back. Glamour: You were married and divorced quite young. What did you learn from that experience? Diane Kruger: I was married very young [to French actor and director Guillaume Canet]. We were together seven years. Without sounding pessimistic, I learned that I don&amp;amp;#8217;t believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There&amp;amp;#8217;s no paper that will make you stay. A guy friend of mine said, and it made a lot of sense, that people should get married at the end of the road, not the beginning. Glamour: Well, when you&amp;amp;#8217;re young, you have no sense of what forever means. Diane Kruger: I&amp;amp;#8217;m a different person now than I was years ago. Glamour: Do you want kids? Diane Kruger: I do. When the time is right. Glamour: You&amp;amp;#8217;ve certainly accomplished a lot already. What would you tell young women whose dreams seem far away? Diane Kruger: Ask questions. Surround yourself with people who will help you advance. You should be smart enough to know that you don&amp;amp;#8217;t know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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