Jennifer Lopez Admits Fashion Line Is Her Biggest Failure to Date

Singer and now style icon Jennifer Lopez wasn’t always as fashion-savvy as she is today. In fact, her 2001 attempt at launching a fashion collection fared miserably – so miserably that she considers it her biggest failure to date.

In a new interview cited by the Daily Mail, Lopez admits that she has had several missteps in her career, her Sweetface fashion line included.

Launched in 2001, the line came precisely at a time when Lopez was everywhere, one of the most famous women in the world and a popular pop star as well.

Seeing it come to nothing was quite a shock, but Lopez believes now that Sweetface flopped because the time was not right for her to go into fashion.

Not only did she not have enough experience, but she wasn’t allowed either more creative control for the line, which means that, by the end, it represented very little of who she truly was.

“I just felt like I never got a fair chance to do it right. And on top of it, I felt like I was trapped in a situation I couldn’t get out of, and my name was stamped on things that I didn’t believe in,” she said of her first foray into fashion, with the help of Andy Hilfiger.

For Lopez, hopefully, second time is a charm: she and husband Marc Anthony are about to do more than just fashion, since they’ve helped design an entire lifestyle line at Kohl’s.

In the same interview, the singer and American Idol judge also says that she’s had some hit and misses in movies as well – but it was never as bad as it got with her first fashion collection.

“I don’t know anyone who bats a thousand in the movie business. I’ve made some great movies, and I’ve made some not-so-great movies,” she says.

“Would I have wanted more opportunities to work on even greater films, consistently? Sure. Everyone wants to work on the great movie and have the great role and get nominated for an Oscar every time. Life is not like that,” Lopez adds.