“At this time, I think, women really like and need tailoring,” Stone says. “We can't just always run around in a dress, you know? Sometimes we just really need to walk in like a lady, walk out like a man.”
If Sharon Stone is to be believed, she was a “hairy beast” up until a few hours before she stepped onto the red carpet of Monday night’s Met Gala. “I’m with the wrecking crew, in the full throes of being made over,” she tells me that afternoon, occasionally pausing the phone call to address her hair and makeup artists. Somehow, this is all new for Stone. She’s never attended the extravaganza——and she’s never worn an everyday look by Thom Browne, let alone one of his masterpieces.
Stone tells me all this with no trace of anxiety or trepidation: She’s fully along for the ride. “I'm very intrigued about my part in this beautiful play of the Met Ball,” she says. “I’m such a fan of Diana Vreeland and all that she brought—all of her style, her drive, her elegance, her taste—and I love that she created this.” Stone finally experiencing Browne’s “sensational” tailoring makes the night that much better. “At this time, I think, women really like and need tailoring,” she says.
The basis of their relationship—Stone’s Met Gala attire—has to do with family, too. The reason she “really loved and respected” the black beaded dress Browne had in mind from the start was because it’s based on a frock his mother Bernice wore in the ‘60s.
There’s a reason Stone chose this particular Met Gala to be her first. To her, the combination of the theme, “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” and time of year, just after September 11, was too meaningful to pass up. “I feel really honored that I get to be a part of acknowledging how much we love and feel and hurt for America,” she says.
Time is ticking, and there have been enough gentle interruptions from Stone’s hair and makeup team that I’m positive the “hairy beast” descriptor seems ludicrous even to her. I suddenly realize that I’ve been sweating for the duration of the call, having turned off my A.C. to record it. If I’ve been in shorts, sitting stationary, isn’t Stone worried about swathing herself in layers of beaded mohair on a muggy, 86-degree day? The answer, supplied immediately, is a firm no.
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