In a recent interview with Vogue , Jennifer Lopez explained the entire story behind her famous 2000 Grammys “jungle dress” that prompted the creation of Google Images as we know it.
Just last week Jennifer Lopez and Donatella Versace teamed up to break the internet for a second time.
Obviously, it worked.
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50-year-old Jennifer Lopez in that green dress was the only thing anyone was googling for a solid 24 hours.
And if you feel like you may recognize the green dress from somewhere — it’s because you probably do!
Back in 2000, when J-Lo was quite possibly at the peak of her superstardom, she wowed the everyone at or watching the Grammys in a very similar green Versace gown.
Back in 2000, the internet was a much different place. Breaking it wasn’t nearly as difficult of a thing to do as it is nowadays.
In a recent interview with Vogue, J-Lo explains the story and significance behind the first green dress — the one that actually broke the internet.
“Alright. Let’s talk about the dress,” she began.
“At the time of the Grammys in 2000, I was obviously nominated for a grammy and I was getting ready to go. I was also working on a movie called, The Wedding Planner ,” she said.
“I remember I was on the set, and I had to have my fitting for the Grammys on the set.”
“My stylist at the time, Andrea Lieberman — she had a bunch of stuff. But it was all, like — nothing really special,” she continued. “I was like, ‘meh’.”
“It was a bust,” she explained.
She asked her stylist to come back with a few more choices — and it’s a good thing she did, otherwise, we may have never gotten to see J-Lo in the famous green Versace gown.
“She came with like, three dresses,” she said.
“Which — I’m very spoiled now — people come with a thousand dresses when they come to a fitting for me.”
“But that day it was like, two or three dresses — and I’m looking, and I’m like, ‘okay…'”
“It was like, a white one and a green one, and then one of the ones we had tried in the trailer which was a no ,” she explained.
“And then I tried on the green one and when I came out, everyone was there — glam, and everybody, and they were like, ‘that’s the dress! That is the dress, that’s what you’re wearing, let’s go!'”
Although everybody seemed to agree on the dress, that’s when J-Lo’s stylist stepped in, advising her to pick another dress instead.
“Then Andrea, my stylist, was like, ‘no, you can’t wear that one!'”
“I was like, ‘why did you bring it then?'” she went on.
“She was like, ‘no, it’s just, somebody else has worn it. Actually, Donatella herself has worn it, one of the Spice Girls have worn it, Sanda Bullock has worn it in another color.'”
But Jennifer didn’t care. She said: “‘This is what we’re gonna wear. This is it.'”
“I really didn’t think about it — I didn’t think it was all that risqué, to be honest. I was more excited that it was the Grammys, I wasn’t even really thinking about the dress that much, I was just glad I had something to wear.”
She revealed that fans were blown away by the dress, scrambling to find a photo of it if they were unable to catch a glimpse on TV.
“Google Images didn’t exist at the time,” she said. “People were searching, trying to find a picture of the dress.”
“So, they created Google Images,” she said. “Donatella and I talk about it sometimes, and we just usually mention it was ‘the dress.'”
In 2015, the former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, called the dress “the most popular search query we had ever seen.”
“But we had no surefire way of getting users exactly what they wanted: JLo wearing that dress. Google Image Search was born,” he continued.
Just when I thought J-Lo couldn’t get any more perfect, I find out she’s the reason Google Images exists.
So, next time you’re using Google Images, you have J-Lo and Donatella Versace to thank for its incredible convenience.
Let us know what you think of the famous Versace “jungle dress”!
