A few days ago in Cannes, the influencer Léna Mahfouf, aka Léna Situations, was the target of strong criticism on her physique following her appearance on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival on May 22. She appeared wearing a vintage Vivienne Westwood dress, consisting of a bodysuit and a long train revealing her bare legs. A dress already worn by Naomi Campbell in the 1990s. "I've always been more or less comfortable with my body... Until the last few months. I have gained weight I am aware but the internet realized it before me and wants to share it, "she had confided in an Instagram story to her 4 million subscribers.
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Op-ed against injunctions
So how to react to this outburst of hate on the Internet? Some decide not to respond, fearing to feed the toxic dumps, and others do not shy away from the ire and abusive comments, like Lena Mahfouf. The influencer uses her body and clothing against the injunctions and tyranny of the image. It is therefore this way that the young woman used to respond, Thursday, May 25 in the evening, to the gala of the amFAR organized on the sidelines of the festival at the Cap-Eden-Roc hotel, on the heights of Cannes. Lena Mahfouf wore a green Versace dress with a cut similar to the one she wore on the day of the screening of the series "The Idol": large train, high panties and bare legs. This sexy outfit has turned into a platform against the criticism that triggers her appearance, and against the bashing, of which she is regularly a victim.
In 2019, Jennifer Lopez walked for Versace in a new version of the dress she wore at the Grammy Awards in 2000. Jacopo Raule
In 2022, after a new wave of cyberbullying, she had put her activities on Youtube on pause. Here, she takes the opposite approach with a dress that plays with the laws of hate networks and mixes, at the same time, a discourse of revenge. Because beyond the message of self-affirmation that this dress takes, we remember that it first marked the history of the Web, having been worn by Jennifer Lopez in 2000. During the Grammy Awards ceremony, the singer had made a strong impression by arriving at the arms of Puff Daddy (her companion at the time) in the very first version of this Versace dress with a vertiginous neckline. On the Web still in its infancy, many Internet users typed "dress J.LO", looking for a photo.
In 2015, the former CEO of Google will say that this query shattered all records, pushing internal teams to launch Google Images. Anecdote worth to Jennifer Lopez the title of fashion icon of the beginning of this century. The dress has become so iconic that Donatella Versace had brought it up to date in 2019, during a show in Milan, crowned with the title "the dress that broke the Internet". It can be seen as a symbol.