Claire Danes was thrilled to wear a Gap dress to the Golden Globe Awards because was obsessed with the brand when she was a teenager

Claire has now admitted it was a fitting collaboration because she's always loved clothes from Gap. She told Vanity Fair: "I remember my best friend from when I was nine, she's still my best friend, Ariel, it was maybe 1989, late '80s ...we loved the Gap so much, and we used to talk about money in terms of what it would allow us to buy at the Gap.

"Money only mattered in terms of how many, like, culottes, Gap culottes, I remember. I was really struck by that, that it's been such a presence in culture for so long, and that, really, I only wanted to earn dollars so that I could shop at the Gap uninhibitedly."

She added of working with GapStudio boss Zac: "[I've known him for] just an alarming amount of time now, the math is distressing ...

"He is so brilliant and so warm and imaginative and optimistic, everything seems possible when you're talking to Zac and then he turns it into a reality.

"It's really such a privilege to be in these longer conversations with designers and admire them and know them. We have a real intimacy ... It's also an excuse to gossip."

The actress - who shot to fame as a teenager in hit TV show My So Called Life - previously revealed she used to wear store-bought outfits for red carpet events instead of using stylists and borrowing couture gowns.

Speaking to Mastermind magazine, Claire explained: "The carpet thing has grown over the course of my career. There weren't stylists when I started.

"We barely had a make-up person. I would wear a dress that I bought at a store. I basically just have to wear the thing with some conviction."