Jennifer Lopez has a feature in the December/January issue of Harper’s Bazaar to promote her new collaboration with Giuseppe Zanotti. If you had asked me back in ‘90s if I thought J.Lo had the potential for this kind of career longevity, I would have called you crazy. She’s still a big deal – she has a Las Vegas residency, a hit TV show, she’s a TV and film producer, she’s still making music, and she’s still a force in fashion. It’s sort of remarkable. Anyway, I found this Bazaar interview slightly boring except for the story about her white fur coat. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

Fashion nostalgia: “If you hear a song from a certain time and you’re like, ‘Oh, my God!,’ it takes you back to that period in your life. I do the same thing with my closet. I walk in and I see a hat or a pair of shoes or a coat, and I go, ‘Wow! I remember I was wearing that the day this happened, or I was walking down the street; or I heard this or my mom said that, or my boyfriend …’ You know what I mean? ‘And I was dating so-and-so …’ I love hoops, jeans, boots, and sparkle,” she says. “If you look back to my first red-carpet days, it’s short, sparkly Versace dresses. I know everybody knows the green jungle dress, but I’m more about Versace’s chain mail and Swarovski crystal dresses, which I’ve been doing since back then.”

The fur coat she wore when her kids were born: “It was in the middle of a snowstorm, and I wore this big white fur coat. I was huge, and it was the only coat that would fit me. Every time I see that coat, I think of the day my kids were born.”

Her collab with Giuseppe Zanotti: “I first met Giuseppe years ago, and I remember him just being a really sweet spirit,” she says. “He came to my house. Even back then we talked about doing a collaboration together. We talked about different things, a music video I was about to do, all kinds of stuff. He went through my closet, and we sat in there. We were supposed to just meet and say hello, but he wound up staying for hours, and we just talked fashion. He was like, ‘Oh, my gosh! You have those shoes? They only made 10 of those!’ I’ve been a huge fan of his for a long time.”

Her favorite kinds of shoes: The 16 styles in the Giuseppe for Jennifer Lopez collection, available in January, range from Swarovski-encrusted booties to embellished wedge sneakers. “I have a certain sensibility about the way I dress and design, and I just kind of handed that to him,” she says of their process. “People really associate me with sparkle and a little bit of street edge and things like that. I wanted to make sure the collection had that, but then some [styles] feel very glam and high-end fashion.”

Jennifer Pink & Jennifer Blue: An important part of Lopez’s sensibility is the color palette, including a pale-blush tone that she refers to as “Jennifer pink.” “I’ve always called it that—it’s something I’ve always had with my own clothing lines,” she explains. As a corollary, there is “Jennifer blue,” “which came from a gift I got years ago,” she says. The gift: a 14.5-carat blue-gray diamond given to her by Anthony for their first wedding anniversary.

Her daughter Emme: “She loves fashion. She was wearing my shoes as soon as she started walking. She’s actually learning to sew already. Who knows? We may have a little designer on our hands.”

[From Harper’s Bazaar]

I’m assuming she wasn’t actually wearing a white fur coat while giving birth, although I wouldn’t be surprised if that actually happened. It seems like more of a Mariah Carey or Beyonce move though, to wear fur during labor.

I love the idea of naming colors after yourself too. I might need a Kaiser Blue or a Kaiser Red. Kaiser Blue would be a lot like rich shade of cornflower, one of my favorite shades of blue. Kaiser Red would be that deep blue-red, a color which looks great on me. I actually think I know exactly what Jennifer Pink is – it’s the same shade as the J.Lo Glow bottle.

Photos courtesy of Mark Seliger/Harper’s Bazaar.