Jennifer Lopez named her designs in the Giuseppe x Jennifer Lopez collection after her family.
Jennifer Lopez at the Giuseppe x Jennifer Lopez shoe launch
The 47-year-old singer recently collaborated with 59-year-old fashion designer Giuseppe Zanotti on a shoe collection, and has admitted her close relatives were the inspiration for the title of every creation in the line because she wanted to "honour" them.
Speaking to PEOPLE about her latest venture, which launched on Monday (23.01.17), the brunette beauty - who has eight-year-old twins Emme and Maximilian with her former partner Marc Anthony - said: "I just wanted to use all my family's names. He's [Giuseppe] like 'We need names' and I was like 'Okay, I have a bunch of names!' My family is my stability -- they're so solid for me -- and when you think of shoes you think of being grounded. There was a connection there for me. So I took my cousin Tiana, my sister Leslie, Linda, Emme and everybody else and just decided I was gonna honour them with that."
However, the 'Shades of Blue' actress has admitted she desperately wanted a specific garment to be named after her, but decided against it and gave it another title.
She explained: "Linda wrote me and was like 'There's a shoe named after me?!' I said, 'I wanted to name that one after me, but I named it after you!'"
And the 'All I Have' hitmaker has admitted she felt privileged working with the "skilled" entrepreneur because she has learnt a lot.
She explained: "With an artist like Giuseppe, who's so skilled and it's all about the detail, you learn so much. It was really a fun collaboration.
"My favourite part was just spending time together and being able to talk to somebody who does this about what they do was like an honour and a blessing and a good time."
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