Fugs and Fabs?: Diane Kruger


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Oh, Diane. You’re so pretty. But what, as ever, are you wearing?

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  1. Kate

    Really? Those shoes are like macaroni art. The designer probably got inspiration from his 5 year old’s artwork on the fridge.

  2. Kris

    I love the black dress. I think she looks amazing and is 100% owning it. She looks like fashion royalty there. It is one of those times where I remember why Diane Kruger deserves all the accolades she gets -making it look effortless and fabulous.

    I actually like the top/skirt combo more when I didn’t know about the matchy piece at the bottom. I do love the yellow shoes with it though.!

    • Jo

      Completely agree. The dress is very old school glamour with a twist. Love it. The second outfit is great too.

  3. amy

    I love everything she’s wearing except for that odd ear decoration.

    • Kris

      Ohhh -I hadn’t noticed. How odd.
      But I bet in 2 years that will be all the rage.

      • Katharine

        You mean just like in 1987, when I think I had the exact same thing?

        This skirt-over-dress is more successful than the duct-tape skirt from the other day, but I’m still not in love with it. The black dress has a nice silhouette, but the details aren’t making my eyes sing.

  4. Piglet the Pooh

    The bodice looks like Darth Vader dressed up as Chewbacca for Halloween

  5. Gigi

    Shhhhh, don’t move. There is tiny alien making its way from behind her ear and out of her brain.

  6. roser

    The first hair is way too severe, especially with that ear stuff.

  7. Sarah

    I liked the prints combo better before I knew about the bottom piece. At first I just thought she needed to unbutton the top button of the blouse. Now it looks like she is wearing a shirt dress with a skirt over it – and would still need to unbutton the top button.

    • Jasmine

      My first thought was regarding the top button as well. That hair is too flowy and sexy to be coupled with such a prim top. I do, however, LOVE the print on the blouse, and I feel like the look as a whole is interesting and unusual. The shoes I am pretending do not exist, because they make me weep, knowing I will never own them.

      The first silhouette is beautiful, but the combination of fabrics/prints is just… no. Keep Pacey with you at all times, Diane. He contains the crazy.

  8. Amanda

    I’m in love with both! I think she pulls them both off well.

    Although, after Gigi’s comment regarding the ear things I am a little creeped out by those.

  9. TonyG

    I kind of like both of them. I really shouldn’t like the first one, but I do. As for the second, I think the bottom portion of the skirt matching the print at the top, makes it much better, but I think I would have liked it without it also. That’s a whole lot of “think.” I guess I am feeling wishy washy about this.

  10. Jamie

    I’m not a fan of the skirt-over-dress look. Especially when I feel like that would have been a very cute pattern shirt dress all on its own – I don’t think the skirt adds anything.

    • Mel Duff

      @Jamie, I’m with you. When I worked at Marshall’s in high school, this would be in the “Related Separates”, or the “We Did the Matchy for You” section.

  11. annieD

    I think y’all are crazy. She looks fabulous in both outfits. I like the fact that she’s always flirting with the crazy but doesn’t typically cross the line.

    Okay, the ear cuffs are weird, but still…

    • wtfnyc

      THIS. I am completely with you, annieD. You WERK, DiKru!!

      On a related note, though — is anyone else worried that we have been seeing so much of La Kruge SANS Pacey??? Please tell me he’s been stuck filming somewhere inconvenient for the past few months, because I canNOT stand the idea of these crazy kids breaking up!

  12. Lina

    I like the black dress. If Cate B were wearing it, we’d all be going, “Ooooh! Fabulous!” I think the issue is more that DK doesn’t quite have CB’s presence when it comes to selling an unusual piece like that. But the fact that both these dresses are kind of weird makes me like her more.

    However, I really hate the green. The concept of the dress is kind of interesting, but the shape of the shirt part and the print both scream 80s in a way I react BADLY to. Maybe if the green bits were replaced with an entirely different print and the shoulders and neck had an entirely different shape…maybe.

  13. Meredith

    I typically love everything DK wears without hesitation, but I just don’t know about this. They both feel gimmicky to me. I don’t like how the first one looks like she’s wearing a weird shrug. And I usually dislike like the “put two unexpected items together” thing because it feels like weird combination of the designer both taking a shortcut and trying too hard. Though at least this combo looks ok proportion-wise. Better than the duct tape skirt, and better than most “dress over pants” combos.

  14. Emily

    Now that I know it’s a dress, I’m completely on board. It’s fantastic. She does need to unbutton the top button though. But the first one…is it a shrug on top? I hope so. That thing looks like it belongs doll.

  15. Mair Mair

    I didn’t see the bodice thing when I saw the first picture, and I thought “Ooo, I love that polka dot secretary blouse! I bet F21 has a knockoff I could buy for $11 and pair with a cute, bright colored pencil skirt.” And then I saw the second picture. I guess what I’m saying, Diane, is that you’ve got two great outfits going on there. Two great, TOTALLY SEPARATE outfits.

  16. Kelly

    She is indeed very beautiful, but neither look does much for me.
    I did however, laugh out loud at her shadow in the last shot – it’s huge, and she is so tiny.

  17. Karen

    It was very considerate of her to provide a trellis for her trailing vines and flowers to climb up.

  18. Kendra

    I heart Miss Kruger oh so very much. I like that she seems to have so much fun with clothes, and just dives in! What’s life without a little whimsy? I’m not crazy about the first outift, but it’s only eccentric in a way that doesn’t aesthetically please me – not at all “my eyes!” bad. I LOVE the second look, I think it’s gorgeous. The comments about the top button with the hair – I think you have to have sexy schmexy hair to pull off the super prim top button. If she’d gone full prim I’d be going UGH why so DOWDY.

  19. qwertygirl

    The black dress has a “mullet” feel about it–business on top, party on the bottom. I am put in mind of Molly Ringwald’s prom dress in “Pretty in Pink.” It’s like she got an evening gown from someone like Annie Potts and a blouse from Meg Ryan’s wardrobe from “When Harry Met Sally” in the airplane scene and stitched them together. As for the skirt/blouse/dress, I think it would have worked if the skirt had been plain black. The white stripes are too bold and geometric for the pattern on the blouse part. This looks like a dress version of a badly executed “shabby chic cabbage rose chintz and mattress ticking” c1994.

  20. Erin

    Don’t you think it looks like she wrapped Aria’s ladder pants around her Fug green high-necked amish dress? you do NOT like it!

  21. Sandra

    Can nobody count properly? It’s all “no pants” or “two skirts”. Why is this so hard?

  22. leah

    I dig it. All of it. She’s won me over. She makes interesting fashion choices with a unique aesthetic. A beautifully fitted strapless gown is nice, fine, whatever, but she often chooses colors, patterns and cuts that are unusual, but (I think) almost always fit her well and flatter. She’s beautiful, but her public image is not about being sexual and revealing her body. In general, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, depending on how it’s executed, but I find Diane’s look a refreshing change of pace.

  23. Molly

    I’m not sure WHY, but I know I love the photocall look. What have you done to me, Kruger? And WHERE IS PACEY?

  24. Miranda

    I LOVE that last look. Love it. When it was the close-up I wasn’t sure, but now that I see the whole outfit I am in looooooooooooove. I want it to be my Valentine.

  25. Coco

    I think the stripes on the skirt need to be a little less bold, then the look would work better for me. Not great, but better.

  26. Dazie

    Those shoes are DIVINE. Who? How much? Size 10 anyone?

    • paola

      Shoes are from Zanotti, and, I agree, they are fabulous! I think they couldn’t cost nothing less than 700/800 Euro.

  27. Lara

    Fab on both!

  28. Julie

    I don’t know. It looks like she’s wearing a skirt over a dress. But is she? Wouldn’t there be bunching of some sort? Love those shoes though. Want them in my life.

  29. Milly

    I think you’re just tired. She looks fantastic in all of this. I was weirded out by the long dress at first too but the more I look at it the more I think it’s genius.

  30. steen

    I love it all, except for that ear cuff thingie. My god, she is beautiful.

  31. LoriK

    I don’t love the black dress, but she’s so totally owning it that I’;; give that one to her with no hesitation. The other outfit is a huge “no” though. That skirt is way too “Beetlejuice” and I agree that wearing it with that shirt reeks of trying to hard.

  32. La Fifie

    This is the same thing as that duct tape dress we saw the other day. Is that the new trend? Two totally unmatched fabrics in one dress? FUGLY!!!

  33. vandalfan

    The black and Swiss dot dress I would like if the sequins had just been plain black fabric and the belt simple, thin black leather. The ear dealybobbers are gross. The second is a dull Hawaiian print shirtdress with a Dr. Seuss skirt pulled over, so, no again. And if she doesn’t unbutton the collar, she’ll choke if she twists or bends down. The shoes are the only part that need no help.

  34. Peachsiki

    I like the last outfit, 67% because of the shoes, the only thing I don’t like about it is the shirt-skirt poking out the bottom, also this is just me, but I wouldn’t appreciate the horizontal stripes on the skirt. HOWEVER I feel like it would be really boring if it were a regular patterned shirt over a solid black skirt.

  35. mary lou bethune

    There are a small fistful of women who can wear anything due to their being so beautiful/naturally chic/ or talented/ and Diane is one of them… her being in the first category.
    Meryl is in the last, and Rooney in the middle, headed for the last, maybe. Helen Mirren in all three…
    And my 30 year old self wants those yellow shoes….

  36. Ranjani

    Only a supremely confident and beautiful woman would ever dare to wear horizontal stripes over her hips. I’m impressed

  37. Claire L

    I actually like the polka-dot/sequin fiasco… I guess it’s because I love polka dots and I was a magpie in another life. What ruins it for me is the belt. Hate that.

    I like the last look too….mostly because not in a million would I consider to put the two prints together and not in a Bazillion would I be brave ( or fit) enough to actually wear them.

    • anne p.

      I’m with you, kid . . . .

      In the *real world* (the one in which people are actually out and about, as Miss Kruger is, as opposed to..um…online world), she most certainly deserves an A !

      I do wonder about our hairtrigger, quibbly standards sometimes ;-)

      • Claire L

        LOL! SO true! I think I may have to place these lovely ladies in a ‘real world’ scenario and then decide how I would judge them…..I have a feeling I’ll be giving a lot more thumbs up.

  38. Issie

    I don’t know how she does it, but even if I don’t 100% love the clothes she’s wearing, I like them on her. She and Zoe Saldana both are able to sell stuff that lesser mortals would look ridic trying to pull off. Is it confidence? I honestly don’t know, but more power to them, I guess.

    The 2nd outfit is actually a skirt over a dress, not a skirt with a matching ruffle. Derek Lam showed it this way on the runway, IIRC. And I do legitimately love the gown. I wish I had something fancy to go to so I could steal it from her. Along with Pacey as my date,

  39. Guerra

    I don’t LOVE either one particularly but I love how she has style & is always interesting & never looks bad!! Confidence!!

  40. Sajorina

    I ♥ IT! I LOVE IT ALL! I ADORE, WANT & COVET IT ALL! Oh, the dresses… Oh, the shoes… Oh, the accessories… Oh, Pacey… “Kruger!!!!!!!!!!” *yells while waiving her fists at the heavens*

  41. ChaChaHeels

    Ear cuffs are the go-to accessory for mullet hair dos. I don’t want to see them come back. Combined with Diane’s hair do, which is a seriously lazy straight from the gym look, they really undermine the glamour of the dress she’s wearing. Too bad, cause that’s a great dress. It’s got all the retro silver screen chic of the Greta Garbo movie goddesses, and even though it’s over the top with details, they all work together brilliantly. You don’t see many designs like this nowadays (maybe because of Stella McCartney’s ubiquity, or because Karl Lagerfeld hasn’t designed a decent outfit since he was fat).

  42. jean

    I think she’s selling the second look really well. I like the matching hem. It pulls it together. And the bold yellow shoes! Wow. And her shoes fit! She always wears her clothes with such confidence you just know she chose them and not her stylist. And in some ways, it’s better she’s alone. Trying to blend with Joshua would be impossible unless he was wearing tails and a tophat at that first event.