Jennifer Lopez has revealed she almost never wore the iconic green Versace dress to the 2000 Grammys which has now become part of pop culture history.
The 50-year-old sat down with Vogue and revealed that her stylist at the time, Andrea Lieberman, didn’t want her to wear the dress because Donatella Versace herself had previously worn it, as had Geri Halliwell.
JLo explained that she didn’t have an outfit to wear to the event until pretty much the day of, when she chose the green dress.
“[Andrea] came with three dresses, which I’m very spoiled now, people come with a thousand dresses when they come to do a fitting for me,” she said.
“That day, there’s two or three dresses, and I’m looking… I tried on the green one, I came out, everyone was there… and they were like, ‘That’s the dress, that’s what you’re wearing, let’s go!'”
However, her stylist wasn’t cheering for the outfit, Lopez added, “Andrea, my stylist, was like, ‘No you can’t wear that.'”
“She was like, ‘No, it’s just that you can’t wear that one. Somebody else has worn it. Actually, Donatella herself has worn it. One of the Spice Girls has worn it. Sandra Bullock has worn it in another colour.'”
Thankfully, the singer was 100 per cent set on the green dress, telling her stylist, “I said, ‘This is what we’re gonna wear. This is it.'”
“I didn’t think about it, I didn’t think it was all the risqué to be honest. I was more excited it was the Grammys, I wasn’t even thinking about the dress that much.”
Lopez described what it was like when people started seeing her in the dress at the event, “There was like, this little buzz in the air and people started yelling and screaming, obviously they always yell and scream your name, but there was something extra about it.”
“When we walked out on stage, again, there was this murmur in the crowd and everybody started clapping and I was just smiling, just trying to be normal… and it was just one of those perfect moments, I walked out on stage and it kind of blew open and the dress was just provocative enough, I guess, to make people really interested.”
“Google Images didn’t exist at the time and Sergey [Brin] and those guys over there were like ‘People were searching trying to find a picture of the dress’, so they created Google Images search,” she added.
JLo wore an even more dramatic version of the iconic dress over the weekend at Milan Fashion Week, once again going viral.
I mean, seriously, how can someone look like that at 50?!