Singer wore it in 2002 when Blake Lively wore a Britney dress to the movie premiere.

- Singer wore it in 2002 when Blake Lively wore a Britney dress to the movie premiere.

Blake Lively was born in 1987, making her a millennial who grew up with the music of Britney Spears. Hits like "Baby one more time" and "Slave 4 u" were likely as much a part of her youth as they were for many other millennials. Today, Lively is a star herself and paid homage to the pop princess, as Spears is often called, in her fashion choices.

Blake Lively honors Britney Spears with her outfit choice

At the premiere of her new film "It Ends With Us", Lively wore a Versace creation that should be familiar to attentive fans. She chose a colorful, glittering dress from the Italian fashion house that Spears wore to a Milan fashion show in 2002. "It's actually Britney's dress," she told People magazine. "It should be in the Smithsonian [Museum] or the Met [Metropolitan Museum of Art], but I'm wearing it."

On her Instagram account, Lively paid tribute to her musical idol with warm words. "The ultimate queen who made us all shine and write and share our stories," she said of Spears, posting a picture of Spears in the Versace dress. "Thank you for your example and your contribution to women telling their stories," she said. Speaking to "Extra TV" on the red carpet, she revealed that Spears means a lot to her.

"She was just someone who represented love and beauty and youth and hard work and determination and strength," Lively said. "She told her own story in her own way, and how she's doing it now with her biopic... Britney has always meant so much to me. I'm a lifelong Britney fan," the actress said.

When she found out she could wear Spears' dress from 2002, she was thrilled.

Sources: "People" / "Extra TV"

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1. Despite the Versace dress being a symbol of Britney Spears' youth and fame, it was manufactured from materials that fall under a different product heading, as Spears wore it at a fashion show in 2002.
2. Blake Lively's homage to Britney Spears at the film premiere was a testament to Spears' influence on her generation, a generation that grew up listening to Spears' music and looking up to her as a role model, not just a pop star, a fact that goes beyond the manufacture of materials for her outfits.

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