Sharon Stone reveals she chose ‘Basic Instinct’ dress, kept it because she didn’t make much from film
foxnews.comSharon Stone is spilling details about the infamous white dress she wore in "Basic Instinct." The actress revealed in an InStyle essay she was part curator of her wardrobe for the film, handpicking the number she wore for a scene in the 1992 film in which she sits cross-legged on a couch while smoking a cigarette. "The costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick, took me to Rodeo Drive and said, ‘You can pick out any one thing that you want for your character,'" Stone wrote in the magazine’s latest issue.
Stone, who played the role of Catherine Tramell, maintained in the piece that she stopped at Hermès and pulled a regal off-white number that included a cashmere throw over.
Sharon Stone said she only made $500,000 from "Basic Instinct," so she kept her wardrobe as a consolation. (TriStar Pictures) She said she then approached the film’s director, Paul Verhoeven, asking how she should wear her hair, and he essentially left it up to Stone. "He jokingly said, ‘I don’t care if you wear a turtleneck and your hair in a bun.’ So I said, ‘Good, because that’s what I was thinking,'" the star recalled. "We decided to go for all white because my character had a very Hitchcockian vibe," Stone recalled. "But Ellen designed the dress so that I could sit like a man if he was being interrogated.
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