To mark the 20th anniversary of The Dress, Jennifer Lopez flew to Milan to see a replica of her original look on the Versace runway in early 2020. See her on the catwalk – and think about it as a Versace muse for over 20 years.
There are times when fashion and pop culture meet to make history. Even in this pantheon of paradigmatic style moments – the stuff of swan dresses, princess pink dresses and Cher’s diaphragm – Jennifer Lopez in Versace at the 2000 Grammy Awards really does not hurt.
The singer came with a harsh chiffon number in a tropical-green floral pattern that flared as she walked, to the awe and delight of the photographers, the audience, the nascent Internet, and Lopez. “It was just one of those perfect moments,” Lopez said to Vogue recently, remembering the turn on the red carpet that would turn her into the stratosphere of style.