Jennifer Lopez wasn't the aboriginal one to abrasion Versace's tropical-print blooming dress. But she is the one who fabricated it iconic.
In 2000, she wore the flowing, coast book dress to the Grammys and was an actual standout. Now, that wasn't the dress's countdown outing; above-mentioned to Lopez both Donatella Versace and above Spice Girl Geri Halliwell had beat it in public, according to Bodies editor Jess Cagle, who writes about the dress in the magazine's new "The 100 Best Celebrity Photos" book.
But J.Lo formed that dress bigger than anyone abroad afore her, and it's acknowledgment to her faculty of appearance and attendance that we bethink it today.
Of course, afterwards she wore it, so did abounding others, including Ellen DeGeneres (when the singer/actress visited DeGeneres' allocution show) and TODAY's own Matt Lauer (for Halloween, naturally).
"When I did attending at the acknowledge on that, aback I looked at myself in the mirror I thought, 'My God, this is the best antic apparel I've anytime worn,'" Lauer says in a video on People's website.
But the dress wasn't done alteration people's lives. According to Cagle, so abounding bodies went on Google to chase for the dress afterwards the Grammys that Google created and launched Google Images.
"At the time, it was the best accepted chase concern we had anytime seen," Google controlling architect Eric Schmidt told Vogue in 2015. "But we had no answerable way of accepting users absolutely what they wanted: JLo cutting that dress. Google Image Chase was born."
So area is the dress today? Well, aback in 2012 it was blind at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. But allegedly its buyer has reclaimed it since, and it's now blind in her closet.
Which is still a bigger abode for such an iconic attending than beneath the bed, Julia Roberts!
