Almost as exciting as the couture shows are the slickly-styled stars who attend them, and one such faultless front row-er arriving at Chanel’s Paris store yesterday for the luxury label’s spring/summer 2011 couture show was Diane Kruger, dressed, of course, in the haute house.

Wearing a nude couture dress from Chanel’s AW10 couture collection encrusted in diamond, crystal and gold jewel embellishments, Ms. Kruger gave a lesson in how to make elegant – not to mention expensive – dressing look easy.

The elbow-finish sleeves and classic knee-length cut offered the perfect balance to the dress’s finer details, and teamed with patent black strapped sandals and an artfully messy plaited up ‘do, Diane oozed effortless Parisian chic.

And we’re not even going to mention those enviably toned calves…