Jennifer Lopez and the iconic green Versace dress

Jennifer Lopez is a singer, an actress, a celebrity. Men are adoring her as do many women. Her recently launched beauty line is a big hit not just in the USA but all over the world. One cannot just scrolling down when seeing her photo due to the strong charisma streaming from her figure, her clothes and her style.

Jennifer Lopez is over 50 now but there is an iconic green dress that she has worn both at 30 and 20 years later, as well, with 50.

Let us see the story behind this green Versace dress.

 When attending the Grammy’s Awards Ceremony in 2000, Jennifer Lopez has chosen a very sexy Versace dress – However, she was not the first one to have worn it.

 Donatella Versace debuted the iconic dress in 1999 during the Milan Fashion Week.

She has designed the dress in the same year and has chosen the Milan Fashion Week to debut with the dress.

 Donatella Versace in 1999, wearing her iconinc green dress. (resource:pinterest)

Only a couple of months later the famous Spice Girls singer, Geri Halliwell has also worn this magical green dress at the Music Awards in January 2000 in France. Those days the Spice Girls were one of the most famous girl bands in the world. Howerer, interestingly she had not received the same attention as a couple of months later Jennifer Lopez would.

Geri Halliwell in 2000, wearing the same green dress as above (resource: pinterest)

In February 2000 at the Grammy J-Lo has chosen her outfit relatively fast as she has fallen in love with this green Versace dress the moment she saw it. Her stylist warned her not to wear the same piece worn by someone else a month ago but J-Lo didn’t care, as she thought it was provocative enough to invoke interest. She was right, the dress and her photo wearing it became rapidly a big hit. More than that, the overwhelming number of online searches for Lopez and this green dress, Google Images has been created. This Goodle tool that did not exist until the appearance of this Versace dress worn by Jennifer Lopez.

Jennifer Lopez in 2000 on of the iconic photos that lead to the advent of Google Images (resource: pinterest)

Later, Donatella Versace said the following about the dress and its story with Google:

"You know, that night of 20 years ago, so many people took to the internet searching for Jennifer in that dress, that back then it because the most popular search of the history of Google till then. However, what they were looking for, an actual image, did not come up in the results. Therefore, Google had to come up with a solution and it embraced the opportunity to show how technology really spring from people's needs as much as fashion”

Exactly 20 years later in 2020, in honor of the dress’s anniversary J-Lo has worn a very similar version of the dress for Versace’s runaway show in Milan. And this time again, the world of the internet got blown away as 50 years-old Jennifer Lopez was just as well stunning in the reimagined green satin dress.

Jennifer Lopez in 2000 and in 2020 wearing the reimagined green Versace dress (resource: Reuters)

She may not be the first who has worn the dress, but it led to a lifelong friendship with Donatella Versace and has also changed the face of modern technology.