What is in a dress?  For actress, singer, and entrepreneur Jennifer Lopez, it does seem to be everything.  Nearly twenty years, factories, teenage boys, and grown men across the United States and the globe had a new pinup girl–Jennifer Lopez in green, jungle-print Versace dress. 

Google claimed that the overwhelming search for Jennifer Lopez after she wore that dress on the Grammys red carpet was the inspiration behind Google Image.  Yes, you owe a great deal of gratitude to Jennifer Lopez for your unlimited Google image storage.

Jennifer Lopez before the Green & Jungle-print Versace Gown. 

The dress did leave little to the imagination, including Jennifer Lopez’s career.  She started her career in 1991 as a dancer on the show In Living Color.  She caught her first big break in 1997 when she played Selena in the Selena biopic.  She was the highest-paid Latin actress in Hollywood before the Versace gown, but Latin actresses were not getting big paychecks from Hollywood at that time.  She got about $1 million for the three films she did before the dress.  She did Selena biopic and Anaconda in 1997,  and  Out of Sight in 1998.

Jennifer Lopez after the Green & Jungle-print Versace Gown. 

Jennifer Lopez’s film and music success started after she wore that dress. Since then, she became the first woman to have a number one album and film in the same week, Forbes ranked her as the most powerful celebrity in the world, and she has an estimated net worth of $400 million as of 2019.

What’s in a dress?  The answer is an estimated $400 million.  Jennifer Lopez is a talented actress, singer, dancer, fashion designer, producer, and businesswoman.  However, the green, jungle-print Versace dress is the first thing that comes to mind whenever anyone hears her name.  So, It’s only right that the Versace gown gets its credit.