Model Amber Valletta Rewears Versace Dress That Jennifer Lopez Made Famous
Amber Valletta honored Donatella Versace by wearing the iconic 1999 jungle dress at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards where Donatella received the Positive Change Award.
- On Nov. 3, Amber Valletta presented Donatella Versace with the Positive Change Award at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards in New York City, wearing Versace's iconic jungle-print gown.
- As a longtime Versace muse, Amber Valletta debuted an early short version of the jungle-print look, opening the Versace Spring/Summer 2000 show on the runway.
- Jennifer Lopez's 2000 Grammys wearing of the green gown sparked a fashion frenzy that generated search interest and helped spur Google Images, and she later revisited the gown on Versace runways in 2019–2020.
- After stepping onto the red carpet, Valletta explained her inspiration for rewearing the archival look, telling Vogue, `I feel extra special to be at the CFDA Awards because I'm in the Versace jungle dress and I've never worn my dress out in public. This is the first time that I've ever worn it on the red carpet and so I'm just really excited to be in the magical dress`, she said on Nov. 3.
- Donatella Versace previously wore her sleeveless version at the Met Gala on Dec. 6, 1999, and other celebrities including Lisa Rinna, Tyra Banks, Kerri Colby, and Trey Parker have worn versions since.
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Model Amber Valletta Rewears Versace Dress That Jennifer Lopez Made Famous
Amber Valletta pulled a little something special out of her closet at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards. The model, 51, wore an iconic Versace dress at the CFDA Fashion Awards, which took place in New York City on Monday, November 3. The dress, which Valletta first wore on the 2000 runway, featured an all-over green leafy design. with pops of blue. It was finished with long sleeves, a daringly low-cut neckline that plunged to her navel, a sheer skirt…
Amber Valletta Channels Jennifer Lopez by Rewearing Her Most Iconic Dress 25 Years Later
The supermodel revealed the surprising backstory of the internet-breaking Versace gown.Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images, TheStewartofNY/WireImage Amber Valleta, Jennifer LopezThe GistAmber Valletta rewore Jennifer Lopez's most iconic red carpet look 25 years later.The model posed in the plunging green Versace dress that Lopez previously wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards.Valletta also shared the surprising backstory of the legenda…
At the CFDA Awards, Amber Valletta Reminds Everyone She Wore That Versace Dress First
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty ImagesAt the 2025 CFDA Awards last night, Amber Valletta reminded everyone that she wore that iconic Versace jungle dress first.Valletta hit the red carpet in an archival design from the Italian house that, despite being most closely associated with Jennifer Lopez, was actually worn by her on the runway first just before the turn of the century. The model’s CFDA self-reference hails from Versa…
The clothing responsible for the creation of Google Images returned to the CFDA Awards red past in the model that used it for the first time in the passerelle in 1999.
Amber Valletta Lights Up 2025 CFDA Awards in Versace Gown She Debuted on Runway 25 Years Ago and JLo Later Made Famous
Jennifer Lopez, Lisa Rinna, Tyra Banks and more stars have worn the Versace jungle dress since the supermodel originally wore it on the Versace runway in 1999Steve Granitz/WireImage; Jamie McCarthy/WireImage Jennifer Lopez at the 2000 Grammys/Amber Valletta at the 2025 CFDA AwardsNEED TO KNOWAmber Valletta attended the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards in New York City on Monday, Nov. 3The supermodel wore the iconic Versace jungle dress that she famously…
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