Jennifer Lopez Almost Didn't Wear That Iconic Green Versace Dress - E! NEWS |
- Jennifer Lopez Almost Didn't Wear That Iconic Green Versace Dress - E! NEWS
- Kate Middleton's dresses 'sometimes get their own seat on flights' - Mirror Online
- Seacoast group brings girls joy, safety one dress at a time - Seacoastonline.com
| Jennifer Lopez Almost Didn't Wear That Iconic Green Versace Dress - E! NEWS Posted: 21 Sep 2019 03:02 PM PDT The dress that made the world stop. Jennifer Lopez is taking a walk down memory lane and opening up about the iconic green Versace dress she wore to the 2000 Grammys. Yes, the one that launched Google images and has become part of pop culture history. Putting it back on people's radar (not that it ever left our minds, amiright?), the 50-year-old star recently shut down the Versace runway show during Milan Fashion Week wearing an even more dramatic version of the original design. However, J.Lo reveals she almost didn't wear "the dress." Speaking to Vogue, the Hustlers actress recalled that her stylist at the time, Andrea Lieberman, didn't exactly want her step out on the Grammys red carpet wearing a dress that had already been photographed on Spice Girls' Geri Halliwell and Donatella Versace herself. "[Andrea] came with three dresses, which I'm very spoiled now, people come with a thousand dresses when they come to a fitting for me," she said with a laugh. "That day, there's two or three dresses, and I'm looking." She continued, "I tried on the green one, I came out, everyone was there, glam and everybody, and they were like, 'That's the dress.'"  Chris Delmas/ZUMA Press; WWD/Shutterstock However, J.Lo's stylist at the time wasn't part of the crowd cheering on the design for an understandable reason. "Andrea, my stylist, was like, 'No you can't wear that.'" "She was like, 'No, it's just that you can't wear that one. Somebody else has worn it," the Hustlers actress recalled. "Actually, Donatella herself has worn it. One of the Spice Girls has worn it. Sandra Bullock has worn it in another color.'" However, the "Medicine" singer was adamant that she was stepping out with that Versace number. "I said, 'This is what we're gonna wear. This is it.'" And as they say, the rest is history. Over the years, Lopez has worn several versions of the green design. But it became a viral moment once again after she hit Versace's runway on Friday afternoon. "So this just happened," the 50-year-old star captioned her Instagram video. It's safe to say fans can't get enough of the fierce and fabulous lewk, so keep these updated versions coming Donatella.  |
| Kate Middleton's dresses 'sometimes get their own seat on flights' - Mirror Online Posted: 21 Sep 2019 03:09 AM PDT Passengers travelling on low cost airlines will almost always face the typical drama of having to fit all their clothes in a 10kg or so baggage allowance. But that doesn't seem to have to be a worry for Kate Middleton, who was recently spotted with her husband Prince William and her three kids on a Flybe flight to Balmoral, Scotland. The Duchess of Cambridge is in fact said to regularly ask flight attendants to spare an entire seat for her stylish clothes so they don't get crimped as they likely would do if shoved in a checked-in baggage. Describing what it's like to travel as a royal in the newly released Channel 5 documentary 'Secrets of the Royal Flight', royal correspondent Emily Andrews says: "Obviously when we go to the airports, especially when it's hand luggage only, we're trying to cram all our toiletries into that plastic bag.   "It's never big enough." The royals, however, "don't have to worry" when it comes to transporting luggage or not exceeding the 100ml liquid limit. Far from that, Andrews said she has "been on a plane where Kate's dresses had their own seat to make sure they were kept flat. "They are not going to be shoved in the hole just to be squashed by everyone else's."   The two took the average £73 flight with their three children Charlotte, George and Louis to spend the late August bank holiday with the Queen at her summer residence. Kate and William's low-cost travelling came just as Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle were blasted for taking private jets for half of 10 known trips in the past year, despite them both being environmental campaigners. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who previously said they wouldn't have more than two children to save the planet, were criticised after being seen pictured with their son Archie boarding a private jet to Nice last month. They took another jet to fly to Ibiza for a holiday in honour of the Meghan's 38th birthday. Prince Harry and his wife, however, seemed to have been stung by the criticism as they reportedly took a commercial flight to Rome this weekend to attend the wedding of US-based fashion designer Misha Nonoo, 31, and boyfriend Michael Hess. Nonoo is said to be one of the Duchess' best friends and the one who got her and Harry together. A source told The Sun : "They did fly commercial as Meghan was a bit stung by the criticism over her and Harry's use of private jets." The source added: "Misha helped introduce Harry to Meghan and the two women are the best of friends. "Meghan wasn't going to miss her wedding for the world." Kensington Palace declined to comment.  |
| Seacoast group brings girls joy, safety one dress at a time - Seacoastonline.com Posted: 21 Sep 2019 02:16 PM PDT YORK, Maine�� Kerry Robertson remembers the time when some of the girls� dresses she made for the organization Dress a Girl Around the World were sent to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for girls in the Oglala Sioux Tribe who lived there. She has photos of beaming youngsters posing in the new dresses she had made. One of the people who brought them to the reservation later told her one of the girls said, �'You mean she sewed that just for me?� I can�t tell you what an incredible feeling that was.� Jackie Dewey of Cape Neddick knows that feeling. She�s been sewing for Dress a Girl for five years, and is now the southern Maine/New Hampshire leader for the organization. As her busy family years wound down, she said she was ready for a new opportunity. She said she likes to sew and knew she wanted to do something meaningful to help girls in developing countries. �I almost felt like it was a calling. Finally I googled those words and Dress a Girl came up.� She has not looked back since. Today, the southern Maine/New Hampshire chapter of Dress a Girl Around the World has involved more than 1,000 sewers � mostly in the Seacoast � in making dresses that have gone to girls in 28 countries and counting. Just recently, the chapter reached a milestone: the 10,000th dress was shipped out. To celebrate that and to involve even more sewers in the chapter, there will be a �sew� at the Kittery Community Center Oct. 12. A sewing machine and a joy of sewing are all that�s needed. Dress a Girl Around the World started in 2009 and has grown to encompass chapters around the world, with sewers who have made more than 1 million dresses given to girls in 81 developing countries. The organization was founded on the belief that clothing girls in new dresses reduces their chance of being stolen and trafficked, said Dewey. �When human sex traffickers see a girl in a new dress, she looks like she is cared for and that makes her less likely to be a victim,� Dewey said. She harkens to her own experience as a victim of rape, saying �everything happens for a reason. This has given me the opportunity to help 10,000 girls from maybe the same fate. Maybe this work wouldn�t be as important to me if that rape wasn�t a part of my life.� Dewey organized a sew-a-thon in Ogunquit in 2015, not knowing what to expect, �but it was packed with 40 ladies trying to sew in one small room. Wherever we could find a plug, we had a sewing machine,� she said with a laugh. That�s where Dewey met Robertson, a Newmarket, New Hampshire, resident who had been sewing on her own for Dress a Girl because there was no formal chapter in the Seacoast. Those first dresses went to girls who lived in a sugar cane plantation in the Dominican Republic � and it built from there. As the leader, or �ambassador,� of the chapter, Dewey is responsible for finding outlets for the dresses. She now has a network of hospitals, churches, clubs, organizations, even individual travelers who travel to developing countries � say for mission trips, or on a medical exchange or through charitable work. �One woman said, �My church is going to India.� And I said, �OK, let�s get dresses to India,�� said Dewey. �She�d send back pictures of the girls wearing the dresses, which gives the women the incentive to keep on sewing because it shows their work makes a difference. �Everyone knows someone else. It�s amazing how you keep the communications network going to the point of 10,000 dresses, one dress at a time.� Dress a Girl provides simple patterns, and Robertson and Dewey said you don�t have to be a first-class sewer to participate in a sew-a-thon. All dresses have pockets in the front, which Dewey said can be used for a variety of things. �Sometimes the only food they get is from the dump when they�re looking for recyclables that can be sold. So the pockets provide a place to hold the food and the recycled items they find,� she said. Unfortunately, said Dewey, girls are devalued in many developing countries. �The girl will serve her brothers and her father first, and if there�s anything left over, that�s what she gets. If a boy and girl are sick, the boy will go to the doctor. The boy will go to school,� she said. �If families have debts, they will sell the girl. That�s why there are prearranged marriages at 12, because families can�t afford her.� Thus, the transformation in a girl who receives one of these dresses is something to behold, the women said. �It�s a three-fer. Joy�� feeling like a princess�� dignity and safety.� Most of the dresses are in sizes 5 to 8, because young girls are frequently the ones who are stolen, Dewey said. They make skirts for the older girls, �always in dark fabric so it won�t show when they are menstruating. I saw an article recently that a girl had spotted and was sent home. She felt shunned.� All dresses come with a pair of underpants as well, a personal touch Dewey insists on. People who don�t sew are welcomed to contribute money, which is used to purchase fabric or underwear, Dewey said. Asked what keeps her going, sewing one dress after another for the past six years, Robertson said she thinks of the girls each time she sits down to the machine. �I want to bring some hope. If it�s just that one child who will say, �I can move forward from this. I can do something important in my life rather than have this very sad outlook,� that�s enough for me,� she said. �I think about the girl who remembers receiving this dress, remembers how she felt, and who might have hope from that.� The celebratory sew-a-thon at the Kittery Community Center takes place Oct. 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lunch will be served free of charge to participants. For more information or to learn how to make a donation, email Dewey at dressagirlsmaine@gmail.com.  |
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