Can one dress change history? These did

Google recently revealed that JLo’s Grammy’s dress in 2000 sparked the invention of Google Images. We bring you some iconic dresses that left their mark
The next time you’re taking forever to get dressed and people around you start to get annoyed, tell them you’re channelling your inner Jennifer Lopez and have to come up with a dress that will prompt a major search engine to invent a new service.Apparently, the reason you can cheer yourself up in under a minute with pictures of baby animals on a day when you get yelled at by your boss is because of JLo. She wore a plunging green Versace dress in 2000 and Google Images was born. Here is that iconic dress, along with a few others, which ended up going down in history.
Jennifer Lopez
Donatella Versace wore a plunging green chiffon dress from her own label in 1999, which was later worn by Spice Girl Geri Halliwell in January 2000. Nothing happened. A month later, Jennifer Lopez wore the same dress to the Grammy Awards in 2000, and Google Images was invented. According to Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, when Google was invented, while people were amazed, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin realized that people wanted more than just text. “This first became apparent after the 2000 Grammy Awards, where Jennifer Lopez wore a green dress that, well, caught the world's attention. At the time, it was the most popular search query we had ever seen. But we had no sure-fire way of getting users exactly what they wanted: JLo wearing that dress. Google Image Search was born,” he said.
Angelina Jolie
This wasn’t so much about the dress as it was about the pose which immortalized the dress. For the Oscars in 2012, Angelina Jolie wore a black Atelier Versace gown with a thigh-high slit and became a verb after she showed off her right leg throughout the evening. There were memes and jokes and a Twitter account called AngiesRightLeg (now defunct), but Angelina was not amused. She said, “I don't watch those TV shows and if I go online and see something about myself, I don't click on it. And the people I surround myself with don't really talk about that kind of stuff. I heard something, but I didn't pay any attention. It's as simple as being a woman picking a dress you like and having a night, and not really thinking about anything else.” Since then, anyone who wears a dress with a thigh-high slit and poses like that is pulling off an Angelina Jolie. Even Jennifer Aniston.
Elizabeth Hurley
When anyone talks about ‘that dress’ of Liz Hurley, they mean the black Versace dress held together by large gold safety pins that she wore in 1994 for the premiere of her then-boyfriend Hugh Grant’s Four Weddings And A Funeral. Liz, who until then was mostly known as Grant’s girlfriend, monopolised the red carpet and became a fashion favourite. She’d said, “That dress was a favour from Versace because I couldn’t afford to buy one. (Hugh Grant’s) people told me they didn't have any evening wear, but there was one item left in their press office. So I tried it on and that was it.” In 2007, Harrods put a copy of that dress on sale for the first time for £10,690 (over `9 lakh), as part of an exhibition dedicated to the little black dress at their London store. In 2012, Lady Gaga stopped by to meet Donatella Versace in Milan in this dress.
Lady Gaga
The list of Lady Gaga’s most outrageous outfits is not small, but the one outfit that no one can forget Gaga in is the meat dress. For 2010’s VMA awards, Lady Gaga accepted her Video Of The Year trophy from Cher (who had to hold her meat purse) in a dress, hat, boots, and purse made of raw beef. The dress was designed by Franc Fernandez, who later said, “I feel like I have a voice now as an artist and as a designer.”
The dress was meant to make a statement against the US military's don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy, and Gaga said, “I wore the meat that night as a statement about equality, that we're all equal because we're all flesh. It's kind of morbid, but when we're dead it doesn't matter what our sexuality is.” After being preserved by taxidermists as jerky, the dress went on display in 2011 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was one of the most recreated dresses for Halloween that year, and while it angered animal rights groups, it was also named the top fashion statement of the year by Time Magazine.