While other actresses strutted in Armani, Vera Wang and Richard Tyler at the Oscars, Sharon Stone topped off a long black skirt with an off-the-rack $22 turtleneck from the Gap.

"Her office called our San Francisco office and notified us she would be wearing Gap at the Oscars. She just wanted to be comfortable. We couldn't have been more excited," said Gap spokeswoman Rachel Bold.Stone pulled her entire Oscar ensemble together from her closet, her publicist said.

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