Fresh-faced Elle Fanning shows off her unique flare for fashion in quirky denim dungaree dress and funky pink trainers

Published: 06:15 EST, 7 April 2016 | Updated: 06:49 EST, 7 April 2016

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As a young starlet, she is learning her style as she grows.

And Elle Fanning showed off her experimental fashion as she headed out for lunch in Hollywood's El Pollo Loco restaurant with her mum on Wednesday.

The 17-year-old Maleficent actress went for a quirky denim dress with a chalky design emblazoned upon the front paired with funky trainers.

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Denim dream: Elle Fanning showed off her experimental fashion as she headed out for lunch in Hollywood's El Pollo Loco restaurant with her mum on Wednesday

Elle's denim dress featured thin spaghetti straps and a loose-fitting pinafore style body while it was adorned with an abstract image of a woman's face.

Injecting even more fun into the look she added a pair of pink trainers to the ensemble, which added a funky girly edge.

Proving the attention is in the details, the stylish star added a pink long-strap Chanel handbag featuring the same colours as the trainers.

Blonde ambition: The 17-year-old Maleficent actress went for a quirky denim dress with a chalky design emblazoned upon the front paired with funky trainers

Elle showed off her incredible complexion as she bobbed along the road, flaunting the spoils of youth with her bright skin and pretty features.

Her blonde tresses were styled into a straight style with darker roots adding an edgy feel to her beauty look.

Clearly ready for lunch, she clutched a box which seemed to contain a salad and also a soft drink.

Bright eyed: Elle showed off her incredible complexion as she bobbed along the road, flaunting the spoils of youth with her bright skin and pretty features

Earlier this year, Elle posed up a storm for Vogue Australia and discussed the notion that as her 18th birthday approaches, she will put her child years behind her.

'Everyone's saying I'm adult now... [but] I'm not grown up, I want to be a girl forever!' she says.

In the interview the model admits that she is excited about her impending 18th birthday, April 9, and looks forward to spending it with her closest friends in Los Angeles and then with her sister in New York.

'We're so close, I look up to her so much,' she says.

Best friends: In the interview the model admits that she is excited about her impending 18th birthday, April 9, and looks forward to spending it with her closest friends in Los Angeles and then with her sister in New York

This year, she stars as a teenage girl transitioning to a boy in About Ray, as a punk-rocker in 20th Century Woman and a model 'who gets devoured by the fashion industry' in the horror flick The Neon Demon.

With maturity beyond her years and despite her teen contemporaries, she chooses not to have a public Instagram account and cites a Hollywood legend as inspiration for her mysteriousness.

'Can you imagine Marilyn [Monroe] on Instagram? Would she still be this figure if we knew all this information about her? Who knows.'