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.
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.
Obviously, it worked.
50-year-old Jennifer Lopez in that green dress was the only thing anyone was googling for a solid 24 hours.
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.
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.
"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.
"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'."
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.
"Which — I'm very spoiled now — people come with a thousand dresses when they come to a fitting for me."
"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.
Although everybody seemed to agree on the dress, that's when J-Lo's stylist stepped in, advising her to pick another dress instead.
"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.'"
"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."
"Google Images didn't exist at the time," she said. "People were searching, trying to find a picture of the dress."
In 2015, the former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, called the dress "the most popular search query we had ever seen."
Just when I thought J-Lo couldn't get any more perfect, I find out she's the reason Google Images exists.
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