Julia Fox is addressing her Jackie Kennedy Halloween costume following backlash.
Fox dressed up at an event as the former First Lady of the United States, but raised eyebrows as she portrayed the outfit Jackie O was wearing after her husband JFK had been shot. The host of the canceled show, OMG Fashun, wore a pink suit with bloodstains and explained the reason behind it.
“I’m dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit. Not as a costume, but as a statement,” she said in an Instagram post after the heavy criticism. “When her husband was assassinated, she refused to change out of her blood-stained clothes, saying, ‘I want them to see what they’ve done.’ The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is one of the most haunting juxtapositions in modern history. Beauty and horror. Poise and devastation.”
She continued, “Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest, and mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality. It’s about trauma, power, and how femininity itself is a form of resistance. Long live Jackie O.”
Fox was also criticized by Jackie Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, who took to X to write, “Julia Fox glorifying political violence is disgusting, desperate, and dangerous. I’m sure her late grandmother would agree.”
Jackie wore the Chanel suit on November 22, 1963, the day Lee Harvey Oswald fatally shot JFK while he was riding on a motorcade in Dallas.
See Fox’s social media post below.
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