*In honor of her 50th birthday, famed fashion house Versace announced a partnership with Jennifer Lopez on a limited-edition sneaker that pays homage to the iconic green leaf-print dress she wore to the Grammys in 2000.
The “Chain Reaction” sneaker features a pattern similar to that of the Versace dress with a thick, platform sole.
At $1,075 a pair, the sneaker is available in both men’s and women’s sizes at Concepts’ stores in Boston and New York, as well as online at cncpts.com, per Yahoo.com.
In a recent video for her YouTube series, Lopez called it her “biggest fashion moment ever” and admitted that wearing the dress to the awards show was a last-minute decision after her longtime manager Benny Medina convinced her to rock it.
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“I put on the green dress and come out and Benny goes, ‘That’s it. That’s it. Don’t even talk about it. That’s the dress,’” she said in the video. “And of course my stylist is mortified. She’s like, ‘No! It’s been worn before!’ But the guys were adamant and we said okay.”
She then recounted what happened later that night while presenting an award on stage.
“All of a sudden, again, a slow murmur and everybody starts clapping. We get an ovation for just standing there!” she said about walking on stage with her co-presenter, David Duchovny. “In that moment, that dress became something that people still reference
Fans can next catch JLo. starring in the highly anticipated film “Hustlers,” which hits theaters Sept. 13. The film was inspired by a true story detailed in a New York Magazine article titled “The Hustlers at Scores,” which was first published on December 2015.
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