MILAN — Sharon Stone has become quite a fan of the Italian designer Antonio Marras — and now she’s fronting the brand’s fall 2025 ad campaign.

Staged in Alghero, Marras’ hometown on Italy’s Sardinia island, the images lensed by photographer Branislav Simoncik depict the Hollywood actress wondering through the picturesque town, with its pastel-hued buildings, late 16th-century Cathedral of St. Mary the Immaculate and crystalline sea water in the background.

A consummate storyteller, Marras envisioned the campaign as a cinematic movie sequence portraying Stone as she waits for her lover to come back from the sea. A series of images in the ads are fronted by the actress alongside model Gabriel Aubry.

“I was looking for a woman who could interpret the spirit of Antonio Marras and those values that are so important to us: memory, roots, nature. Someone who understands the essence of Italian-ness. It wasn’t easy. In Sharon I found someone in a league of her own, who was able to portray exactly what I meant. Only a sensitive and extraordinarily exceptional woman like her could have succeeded. After all, the choice was not accidental, there is no such thing as chance,” Marras said.

“We already knew each other in another life. We were already friends. Sharon and I share a love for the arts, and the marriage between the many art forms that exist. We speak the same language: a love of beauty, of truth, of friendship. After all, I love cinema and Sharon is an icon. She lives on the Mount Olympus that is Hollywood and has made the history of cinema, how could I not love her?” he added.

The actress made an unexpected appearance at Marras’ fall show last February during Milan Fashion Week. Back then, the designer enthused backstage about his relationship with her, revealing for example how he and Stone — also an artist — exchange sketches and drawings on a regular basis.

In the campaign she dons fall 2025 runway looks ranging from a mannish Prince of Wales relaxed suit with bustier-like waistline layered under a kimono-style parka bearing painted roses to a ruffled black tuxedo blazer over wide-legged pants and a sensual, body-hugging ivory frock with a pink roses pattern.

The “Basic Instinct” star has worn Marras designs on several occasions over the past two years, for example watching the men’s singles tennis finals at the 2024 Paris Olympics in a floral suit featuring a peak lapel blazer, which she paired with a matching tie-neck blouse.

As reported, Antonio Marras opened its first store outside Italy in New York’s SoHo last month to be celebrated with an official event on Sept. 12 during New York Fashion Week.