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When Sharon Stone showed up at the 1996 Oscars in a simple black Gap shirt, she made red carpet history. But as it turns out, the look was a last-minute fix for a fashion emergency. During her appearance on Naomi Campbell‘s “No Filter With Naomi” YouTube series on Thursday, the 62-year-old “Basic Instinct” star revealed …
When Sharon Stone showed up at the 1996 Oscars in a simple black Gap shirt, she made red carpet history. But as it turns out, the look was a last-minute fix for a fashion emergency.
During her appearance on Naomi Campbell‘s “No Filter With Naomi” YouTube series on Thursday, the 62-year-old “Basic Instinct” star revealed that she’d actually had two outfit options for that year’s Academy Awards — until disaster struck.
“Vera [Wang] was making me two dresses, and we were trying to make one from this Fortuny fabric, and it kept stretching and changing and moving, so we weren’t quite sure it was going to come together, but we were experimenting,” Stone recalled.
“And we were making this other great dress, this pink dress, and it came and the FedEx guy dropped it out of the back of his truck and backed up over it. The box broke open, and the dress had a black tire track down the whole front. The day before the Oscars.”
The actress, who was nominated for Best Actress that year for her role in “Casino,” said she “started to panic” and called her “Basic Instinct” costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick, for help.
“I was like, ‘Ellen you have to come over. I am so, so screwed,’” Stone said. “She just looked at the dress and she looked at me, and she was like, ‘Go get your favorite clothes out of the closet.’”
The star proceeded to lay out a few of her most loved pieces, and Mirojnick styled them.
“We ended up putting together this Gap shirt and a ready-to-wear Valentino skirt, then I had this Armani tuxedo dress that I wore as a jacket, and I picked a gardenia out of the garden. And that was it,” Stone recalled, adding that her mom had to repair a hole in the armpit of her shirt just before she left for the ceremony.
“The rest is history,” Campbell said. “Gap could not have asked for a better advertisement.”
While Stone wound up losing to Susan Sarandon that night, she clearly landed on a winning fashion formula: At the same award show two years later, she paired a lavender Vera Wang skirt with a crisp white button-down shirt, also from Gap.
