Like any proud father, TOM CRUISE is raving about daughter SURI, saying she was born with “style sense” right from the start…if “style sense” meant a predilection for princess dresses and high-heeled designer shoes.

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While some doting parents push their children on to the soccer field, atop horses, or into baseball as soon as they could walk to develop their athletic prowess early, the “Mission Impossible” star and his wife, Katie Holmes decided to hone their daughter’s inner fashionista instead…

Katie has her create things and sew and stuff like that. It’s kind of amazing,”

Tom Cruise told US Magazine.

“It’s beautiful. It’s really beautiful.”

And it’s true. Suri Cruise often looks like a pint-sized runway model each time she steps out in public, with her haute couture dresses, faux fur jackets, legging ensembles, ballet flats, kitten heels, and sheepskin boots…and her proud papa says Suri “dresses” herself for each outing.

“She was just born that way. I don’t know what to say,”

Tom Cruise sighed indulgently.

“She really creates her own outfits. She even tells Katie and I what we should wear.”

And it just goes to show how much of Tom and Katie‘s life Suri holds sway over, because the five-year-old princess just handed daddy and mommy a $130,000 Christmas wish list, which includes a pony, diamond earrings, and a fairy princess-type gown…

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