“Stay put,” one guest said breathlessly to another from behind a pillar in the American Natural History Museum lobby. “I think I see Amber Valletta in the dress posing with Donatella [Versace].”

Correct he was, and it was one of the most-talked about moments from the red carpet at the 2025 CFDA Awards , held Monday in New York. The model turned heads in a recreation of the iconic Versace green navel-grazing gown she wore on the 1999 runway, then made famous by Jennifer Lopez in 2000.

“When we were talking about what I was going to wear, she asked, and…,” began Valletta, making her way into cocktails hand-in-hand with the designer.

“I said, let’s have the jungle dress,” said Versace. “Everybody in the world knows this look. And her face.”

The red carpet and cocktail hour were starry

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