Rather than breaking the internet, Lopez's iconic fashion moment actually improved it: when the singer first wore the original dress it was so heavily searched for online that it inspired the creation of Google Images. Of course, the jungle-green Versace dress that Jennifer Lopez wore to the 2000 Grammys represented a turning point in Donatella Versace's career, with the singer later wearing a reissued version on the catwalk during a Versace show in 2019.
We also can’t talk about the power of the naked dress without mentioning Elizabeth Hurley, who upstaged her then-boyfriend Hugh Grant at the 1994 premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral wearing a Versace dress, held together by safety pins.
The naked dress has been central to many of fashion’s most iconic moments over the years spanning decades, such as Madonna’s catwalk debut for Jean Paul Gaultier in 1992, where she famously wore nothing but a high-waisted skirt and the frame of a bra. The two ensembles broke red-carpet boundaries forever. First paving the way for sheer dressing around the world was Cher, who wore two barely-there Bob Mackie dresses at both the Met Gala in 1974 and the Oscars in 1988. Naked dressing is far from a new trend when it comes to celebrity style and red carpet fashion.