SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 05: Jennifer Lopez attends the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 05, 2022 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for MTV)

If you saw photos of Jennifer Lopez walking the red carpet at the MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday night, you could be forgiven for thinking the images were throwbacks to the early aughts when the singer used to walk the same carpet, looking similarly gorgeous. This is because not only does J Lo look the same – better, even? – than she did back then, but she was wearing a staple of the time: a plunging leather corset. 

Of course, corsets have been trending for a while now, beloved by young millennials and those in Gen Z who are experiencing early aughts fashion in all its low-rise glory for the first time. Celebrity fans include singers Olivia Rodrigo – who happened to also wear a corset to the awards show that night, Dua Lipa, and model Bella Hadid. 

But seeing an ageless, flawless Lopez don not only a corset, but a leather plunging one at that, proved the younger generations aren’t the only ones akin to the trend. To make up her iconic outfit, the singer chose to wear Mônot – the brand behind the cut-out dresses beloved by everyone from Dua Lipa to Kendall Jenner, who controversially chose to wear hers to her best friend’s wedding earlier this year.

Lopez paired the top with a floor-dusting maxi skirt and platforms from her own eponymous footwear line. 

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 05: Jennifer Lopez attends the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 05, 2022 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/WireImage)

Later that night, Lopez took to the stage to accept the Generation Award, during which she gave an emotional and tear-filled speech. “I look at all those movies and I see all the wonderful people that I’ve been blessed to know and to work with,” she told the audience, before adding a personal note.

Though she didn’t mention her fiance Ben Affleck by name, Lopez did speak about love and heartbreak: “I want to thank all the people who gave me this life. I want to thank the people who gave me joy, and the ones who broke my heart,” she said. 

“The ones who were true, and the ones who lied to me,” she continued. “I want to thank true love, and I want to thank the way that I lied to myself, because that’s how I knew that I had to grow.”

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 05: Honoree Jennifer Lopez accepts the MTV Generation Award onstage during the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 05, 2022 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for MTV)