Jennifer Lopez Collaborating With Giuseppe Zanotti
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JENNIFER LOPEZ TALKS PERSONAL STYLE, FAME, AND HER NEW SHOE COLLABORATION
After two decades of superstardom, Jennifer Lopez is still on top, with a hit TV show, a must-see Vegas residency, and a new collaboration with Giuseppe Zanotti.
Missoni dress, $2,085, 212-517-9339; Bulgari earrings, price upon request, and rings, $4,270–$7,050, bulgari.com; Giuseppe for Jennifer Lopez shoes, $895.
In the vast universe of 21st-century celebrity, Jennifer Lopez is in a galaxy of her own. After all, Lopez is a pioneer: the first (and still only) female entertainer to release a number-one album and a number-one film in the same week; an early recipient of the tongue-in-cheek celeb nickname (J. Lo, which she was quick to embrace and still uses for her social-media handles), as well as its tabloid cousin, the singular A-list-couple moniker (remember Bennifer?); and a multi-hyphenate force in music, movies, and fashion for two decades.
One day, Lopez's archive of memories will no doubt be channeled into a memoir or a museum. For now, though, she keeps them in a meticulously organized walk-in closet in her Bel Air mansion. "If you hear a song from a certain time and you're like, 'Oh, my God!,' it takes you back to that period in your life," she explains. "I do the same thing with my closet. I walk in and I see a hat or a pair of shoes or a coat, and I go, 'Wow! I remember I was wearing that the day this happened, or I was walking down the street; or I heard this or my mom said that, or my boyfriend …' You know what I mean? 'And I was dating so-and-so …'"
Lopez's closet is like a career retrospective come to life. "I love hoops, jeans, boots, and sparkle," she says. "If you look back to my first red-carpet days, it's short, sparkly Versace dresses. I know everybody knows the green jungle dress, but I'm more about Versace's chain mail and Swarovski crystal dresses, which I've been doing since back then."
There are also the pieces that elicit a more emotional reaction, from the items she collected from Alexander McQueen's final collection to the coat she wore to the hospital when she gave birth to twins Max and Emme, now eight, her children with then husband Marc Anthony. "It was in the middle of a snowstorm, and I wore this big white fur coat," Lopez recalls. "I was huge, and it was the only coat that would fit me. Every time I see that coat, I think of the day my kids were born."
Lopez has been in New York shooting Shades of Blue, the NBC drama, which is about to enter its second season and which she stars in and executive-produces. She will also serve as a judge and executive producer on a new competition series, World of Dance, and is in the midst of a Las Vegas residency that will take her through mid-2017. As if that weren't enough, she recently announced a new Spanish-language album, which she is working on with Anthony. (Bitter ex, it would seem, is the one role Lopez has refused to take on.)
In addition, Lopez has created a shoe collection with Giuseppe Zanotti—a collaboration that, fittingly, began in her closet. "I first met Giuseppe years ago, and I remember him just being a really sweet spirit," she says. "He came to my house. Even back then we talked about doing a collaboration together. We talked about different things, a music video I was about to do, all kinds of stuff. He went through my closet, and we sat in there. We were supposed to just meet and say hello, but he wound up staying for hours, and we just talked fashion. He was like, 'Oh, my gosh! You have those shoes? They only made 10 of those!' I've been a huge fan of his for a long time."
"I was already a bit nervous because you're so close to Jennifer Lopez, this beautiful girl, and we were in her closet," Zanotti says of their summit. "Then she offered me some Mexican coffee, and I was just so nervous that I tripped, and the coffee got in the carpet, in the shoes. It was a disaster. It was even on a painting." Zanotti was mortified. "My face was completely red."
Nevertheless, Lopez, ever gracious amid the gleaming white setting suddenly sullied by splotches of brown, took the spill in stride. "He always remembers that he spilled coffee all over my carpet, but we had the best time," she says with a laugh.
The 16 styles in the Giuseppe for Jennifer Lopez collection, available in January, range from Swarovski-encrusted booties to embellished wedge sneakers. "I have a certain sensibility about the way I dress and design, and I just kind of handed that to him," she says of their process. "People really associate me with sparkle and a little bit of street edge and things like that. I wanted to make sure the collection had that, but then some [styles] feel very glam and high-end fashion."
An important part of Lopez's sensibility is the color palette, including a pale-blush tone that she refers to as "Jennifer pink." "I've always called it that—it's something I've always had with my own clothing lines," she explains. As a corollary, there is "Jennifer blue," "which came from a gift I got years ago," she says. The gift: a 14.5-carat blue-gray diamond given to her by Anthony for their first wedding anniversary. No paint-swatch inspiration here.
According to Zanotti, Lopez was exacting when it came to every detail of their collaboration. "This woman is so sweet but so sure of what she wants," he says. "She's an artist, but my God, she's so concrete." Lopez's daughter, Emme, seems to have inherited her mother's eye. "She loves fashion," Lopez says. "She was wearing my shoes as soon as she started walking. She's actually learning to sew already. Who knows? We may have a little designer on our hands."
But Emme may have some stiff competition over who gets first dibs on a pair of Giuseppe for Jennifer Lopez shoes. Rihanna had sent Lopez one of the first pairs of thigh-high boots from her collaboration with Manolo Blahnik, which Lopez wore in her "Ain't Your Mama" music video. Is Lopez planning to return the favor? "Oh, my gosh, [Rihanna] is first on my list," she gasps. "It's funny because I actually had that in my mind. I was like, 'She sent me those boots, and the minute my Giuseppes come out I'm sending her a pair.'" Which leads to perhaps the most important question of all: Can people dance in them? Lopez doesn't miss a beat: "I can."
This article originally appeared in the December/January issue of Harper's BAZAAR, available on newsstands November 22.
After two decades of superstardom, Jennifer Lopez is still on top, with a hit TV show, a must-see Vegas residency, and a new collaboration with Giuseppe Zanotti.
Missoni dress, $2,085, 212-517-9339; Bulgari earrings, price upon request, and rings, $4,270–$7,050, bulgari.com; Giuseppe for Jennifer Lopez shoes, $895.
In the vast universe of 21st-century celebrity, Jennifer Lopez is in a galaxy of her own. After all, Lopez is a pioneer: the first (and still only) female entertainer to release a number-one album and a number-one film in the same week; an early recipient of the tongue-in-cheek celeb nickname (J. Lo, which she was quick to embrace and still uses for her social-media handles), as well as its tabloid cousin, the singular A-list-couple moniker (remember Bennifer?); and a multi-hyphenate force in music, movies, and fashion for two decades.
One day, Lopez's archive of memories will no doubt be channeled into a memoir or a museum. For now, though, she keeps them in a meticulously organized walk-in closet in her Bel Air mansion. "If you hear a song from a certain time and you're like, 'Oh, my God!,' it takes you back to that period in your life," she explains. "I do the same thing with my closet. I walk in and I see a hat or a pair of shoes or a coat, and I go, 'Wow! I remember I was wearing that the day this happened, or I was walking down the street; or I heard this or my mom said that, or my boyfriend …' You know what I mean? 'And I was dating so-and-so …'"
Lopez's closet is like a career retrospective come to life. "I love hoops, jeans, boots, and sparkle," she says. "If you look back to my first red-carpet days, it's short, sparkly Versace dresses. I know everybody knows the green jungle dress, but I'm more about Versace's chain mail and Swarovski crystal dresses, which I've been doing since back then."
There are also the pieces that elicit a more emotional reaction, from the items she collected from Alexander McQueen's final collection to the coat she wore to the hospital when she gave birth to twins Max and Emme, now eight, her children with then husband Marc Anthony. "It was in the middle of a snowstorm, and I wore this big white fur coat," Lopez recalls. "I was huge, and it was the only coat that would fit me. Every time I see that coat, I think of the day my kids were born."
Lopez has been in New York shooting Shades of Blue, the NBC drama, which is about to enter its second season and which she stars in and executive-produces. She will also serve as a judge and executive producer on a new competition series, World of Dance, and is in the midst of a Las Vegas residency that will take her through mid-2017. As if that weren't enough, she recently announced a new Spanish-language album, which she is working on with Anthony. (Bitter ex, it would seem, is the one role Lopez has refused to take on.)
In addition, Lopez has created a shoe collection with Giuseppe Zanotti—a collaboration that, fittingly, began in her closet. "I first met Giuseppe years ago, and I remember him just being a really sweet spirit," she says. "He came to my house. Even back then we talked about doing a collaboration together. We talked about different things, a music video I was about to do, all kinds of stuff. He went through my closet, and we sat in there. We were supposed to just meet and say hello, but he wound up staying for hours, and we just talked fashion. He was like, 'Oh, my gosh! You have those shoes? They only made 10 of those!' I've been a huge fan of his for a long time."
"I was already a bit nervous because you're so close to Jennifer Lopez, this beautiful girl, and we were in her closet," Zanotti says of their summit. "Then she offered me some Mexican coffee, and I was just so nervous that I tripped, and the coffee got in the carpet, in the shoes. It was a disaster. It was even on a painting." Zanotti was mortified. "My face was completely red."
Nevertheless, Lopez, ever gracious amid the gleaming white setting suddenly sullied by splotches of brown, took the spill in stride. "He always remembers that he spilled coffee all over my carpet, but we had the best time," she says with a laugh.
The 16 styles in the Giuseppe for Jennifer Lopez collection, available in January, range from Swarovski-encrusted booties to embellished wedge sneakers. "I have a certain sensibility about the way I dress and design, and I just kind of handed that to him," she says of their process. "People really associate me with sparkle and a little bit of street edge and things like that. I wanted to make sure the collection had that, but then some [styles] feel very glam and high-end fashion."
An important part of Lopez's sensibility is the color palette, including a pale-blush tone that she refers to as "Jennifer pink." "I've always called it that—it's something I've always had with my own clothing lines," she explains. As a corollary, there is "Jennifer blue," "which came from a gift I got years ago," she says. The gift: a 14.5-carat blue-gray diamond given to her by Anthony for their first wedding anniversary. No paint-swatch inspiration here.
According to Zanotti, Lopez was exacting when it came to every detail of their collaboration. "This woman is so sweet but so sure of what she wants," he says. "She's an artist, but my God, she's so concrete." Lopez's daughter, Emme, seems to have inherited her mother's eye. "She loves fashion," Lopez says. "She was wearing my shoes as soon as she started walking. She's actually learning to sew already. Who knows? We may have a little designer on our hands."
But Emme may have some stiff competition over who gets first dibs on a pair of Giuseppe for Jennifer Lopez shoes. Rihanna had sent Lopez one of the first pairs of thigh-high boots from her collaboration with Manolo Blahnik, which Lopez wore in her "Ain't Your Mama" music video. Is Lopez planning to return the favor? "Oh, my gosh, [Rihanna] is first on my list," she gasps. "It's funny because I actually had that in my mind. I was like, 'She sent me those boots, and the minute my Giuseppes come out I'm sending her a pair.'" Which leads to perhaps the most important question of all: Can people dance in them? Lopez doesn't miss a beat: "I can."
This article originally appeared in the December/January issue of Harper's BAZAAR, available on newsstands November 22.
