Julia Fox’s 32nd birthday was February 2, Wednesday. I kind of wondered throughout the week if Julia and Kanye West had already burned too brightly in January and now their light had burned out. But no, they’re still together. Kanye hosted a birthday party for Julia in New York, and he gave away $9500 baby Birkin bags as party favors. I cannot.
Kanye West made Julia Fox’s birthday one for the books! On Wednesday night, the Uncut Gems actress celebrated her 32nd birthday with her close friends and West at Lucien in New York City — and a source tells PEOPLE the rapper, 44, made sure the night was a memorable one.
“Kanye wanted to make it special for Julia. He arranged for an extravagant birthday celebration. He showered Julia with gifts and even gifted her friends,” the source says, referencing the Birkin bags he surprised the group with. “Everyone had a great time. Kanye was happy. Julia was ecstatic.”
The source also added that Julia “has been great” for the “Good Life” rapper. “She is a good focus for him and makes him relax a bit,” they say.
After their dinner, the celebration continued at Sei Less until past midnight. Fox later shared videos to her Instagram story from the celebration. In one, she’s seen blowing out the candles on her birthday cake as West embraces her from behind. In another, Fox and her friends surround West as they pose with their brand new Birkin bags.
First of all, Birkin bags have been so devalued as a status symbol in recent years. If baby Birkin bags are so plentiful that they can be bought up by someone and given away as party favors, then they’re basically just Coach bags at this point. That’s not disrespectful to Coach – I have Coach bags and I love my Coach bags, but they were very easy to purchase and there was no wait list. But Birkins are no longer “scarce.” They are just… purses, not elusive status symbols.
As for Julia and Kanye, I found this telling: “She is a good focus for him…” Kanye has a project, and he’s always happier when he has a project. He’s remaking her into the woman of his dreams. Julia is his Barbie doll. This really is the 2022 version of Pygmalion.
Kanye West gifted Julia Fox and her friends Hermès Birkin bags in honor of Fox’s 32nd birthday. pic.twitter.com/kET25ddvSF
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- Paris, FRANCE – Kanye West (Ye) and Julia Fox are all smiles at the Kenzo Men’s Fall/Winter 2022/2023 fashion show at Galerie Vivienne as part of Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France. Pictured: Kanye West, Ye, Julia Fox BACKGRID USA 23 JANUARY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE – Kanye West (Ye) and his girlfriend Julia Fox arrive at the Ritz Hotel during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France. Pictured: Kanye West, Ye, Julia Fox BACKGRID USA 23 JANUARY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE – Kanye West (Ye) and Julia Fox pose at the photocell of Kenzo Men’s Fall/Winter 2022/2023 fashion show at Galerie Vivienne during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France. Pictured: Kanye West, Ye, Julia Fox BACKGRID USA 23 JANUARY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE – Kanye West (Ye) and Julia Fox exit the Kenzo Men’s Fall/Winter 2022/2023 fashion show at Galerie Vivienne as part of Paris Fashion Week. Pictured: Julia Fox, Kanye West BACKGRID USA 23 JANUARY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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I read somewhere that he does her makeup!
& also what is with those galoshes?
This whole sh!tshow is colossally funny!
The sloppy makeup, the greasy skin, the clown footwear, the “close friends” that just happen to all look exactly like Kardashians, and the commodification of EVERYTHING! Gross and funny at the same time. I am revolted by the Kardashians, but at least they have “it” (even if it is rotten to the core).
And last point, not funny at all, I ache for this woman’s poor newborn baby. Ache.
Lol probably no need to ache, since that kid is probably better off without his circus trainwreck mommy
How unutterably vulgar.
I just can’t with Kanye and the fact that his diabolical behaviour is brushed under the carpet. Toxic male privilege at its finest.
Vulgar is right. Vulgar conspicuous consumption. That’s one of the keys to his Kardashians hook-up.
If I repeat your comment with the accent of an outraged octogenarian aristocrat, it becomes extremely funny. I’m so sorry, because youre 100% right. But lol.
Likely just another slap-back at Kim since the Kardashians are supposedly obsessed with Birkin bags. Who would want to date somebody that obsessed with an ex?
Or to be his “project” that calms him….how romantic….🤢
I think he probably viewed it as a flex, because of the purportedly elusive nature of the Birkin. Similar to when JayZ gifted Beyonce $350,000 worth of them one Christmas.
Sure, if he can’t have Kim, he’ll build one himself.
He built Kim too, when they got together he dress her as well. This is Kanye MO this is how he sees women as puppets for him to dress up and style the way he wants.
… so the women are worthy of being seen near him. Same for her group of friends.
@Ennie
Yap think of the derogatory and sexualized comments he made about Kim sisters. Not to mention the mannikins he made of Beyoncé, Amber Rose, and Taylor Where he dressed/undress them, persistent them in sexual ways.
Omg what god awful fashion. He might know music but not fashion. He probably wasn’t exposed to much growing up. What the hell is that? A Canadian tuxedo on a rainy day, ahahaha. She looks like a nineties fool, she probably feels like one too.
Kanye has always been a thread chaser. He doesn’t actually have any fashion sense or style so he covets. The use of Birkins as favors is an excellent example. Instead of coming up with a thoughtful original idea I’ll just toss a few Hermes around. Chanel said fashion is trend but style lasts forever. Ye knows nothing about either
What exactly does “he probably wasn’t exposed to much growing up” mean? Kanye grew up with same access to media as anyone else considered fashionable.
I understand the history but have never understood the allure of Birkin bags. The design is basic. They look like something my grandmother would have carried in the 1950s.
It’s made by hand using the best materials, and it is famously functional. It was designed to be understated and to match any outfit. Your grandma probably would love it, but so would you. In person, it looks and feels like a million bucks. I haven’t been fortunate enough to be given access to purchase one, so it’s annoying to see Kanye doing this.
Interesting, thanks for the insight, Mina_Esq!
They look like the gift bag the favors came in.
Hermés is an old and deeply bourgeois house that has managed somehow to sell its clunky ‘50s handbags as high fashion. They may be made of some of the most unsustainable and cruelest materials possible. Sure, I’ll give you that, if anyone actually thinks that’s cool or morally defensible.
They still look clunky and I gotta say their conservative bourgeois old lady in church style doesn’t actually match Julia’s slick black vinyl urban nightlife Matrix birthday look. There is a possibly deliberate sense of irony there.
I’ve actually seen and handled a friend’s Birkins and Kellys. They’re not all that. They’re old lady purses.
Plus as noted, they’re not remotely exclusive any more. Anyone with money can stockpile them.
I appreciate what you’re saying, Emma. We don’t all have the same taste. The bags are by definition haute couture/high fashion because of the way that they are made. High fashion isn’t a marketing construct. In the same vein, bourgois is by its historical reference to the wannabe French middle class of the past supposed to be flashy and overtly in-your-face luxurious. So saying that Birkin bag is “conservative bourgeois old lady” makes no sense. I get it though. You don’t like it. You think it’s ugly and you have some issues with the materials. I love it and think it’s timeless. To each their own.
I think they’re grossly overpriced and booringggg but I do like Hermès
They can be both haute couture *and* conservative bourgeois old lady style. And they are. I think the fact that they’re considered an ‘attractive’ desirable item by anyone shows how susceptible people are to marketing and how beholden society is to destructive capitalist consumer culture.
I would say that the resell market has taken the exclusivity out of the Birkins, Kellys and Constances. It used to be that you would have to go and build a relationship with sales/spend a crap ton at Hermes before even being SHOWN a bag. While that’s still the case now, anybody can just buy one on a resale website (albeit at a jacked up price) and skip the “exclusive” (*cough* sucker! *cough*) process.
I do have a friend who buys every bag she’s shown (because they would be “pissed” if you didn’t) and would then turn a profit on them with her group of friends. I will admit that if I EVER felt the need to own one, I’d go straight to her and skip buying the other junk Hermes forces on you (horse keychain? Ugly rug? Remember, small leather goods don’t count!) before you’re given the privilege of a glimpse of a Kelly.
The original design is from the 1900’s so I guess your great-grandmother would have carried it!
I believe the original idea for these kind of purses was having one and only one everlasting bag. That’s why they are made by artisans with the alleged best materials (remember the crocodile controversy? I don’t buy the best materials tale but whatever).
I assume the Jane Birkin connection had a lot to do with the original appeal of this bag, then it just escalated and every person with money was told that having more than one makes you better than the rest or something.
The original design is from 1984. Jane Birkin, hippie model, actress and ‘singer’, was on a flight from Paris to London with a big basket bag that everything fell out of. She just happened to be sitting next to Jean-Louis Dumas, Executive Chairman of Hermès, and she complained to him that she couldn’t find a bag suitable for her needs as a young mother. He sketched it out on the spot and included a space and in it for bottles. The irony that this bag – which has become such a stitched-up, up-market, luxury item – is named after such a free spirit who dislikes all the hoopla around the bags, is quite funny.
I don’t understand the appeal either – or the appeal of Gucci bags or Prada bags. I just don’t. They’re made out of animal skins, which is a huge no no for me. I’ll stick to my Baggalini travel bags and my self designed cloth totes from Zazzle, which sport my favorite artworks on them.
Same. I don’t care how ‘high fashion and haute couture’ the purses are. Animals were sadistically tortured and killed so some one can think they’re better than everyone because they’re decorating themselves with dead animal skins.
Idk what ur talking about, kanye is a billionaire.
Ofc it’s easy for him to get the birkin.
I kinda like it seeing him with julia.
It’s better than clinging to kim.
If only Julia was as cool and edgy as she thinks she is…love bombing never ends well. And wasn’t Ye macking on a Kim lookalike just the other day?
It seems men always use other women to work through their divorce issues with their exes. The Kim clone vibes are strong.
Fix the tax code.
My thoughts exactly. I work as a housing counselor and this week I had to tell a young dad there was no funding or programs to help him with rent and a senior citizen there was no money to help her with property taxes. Meanwhile you have people giving away $10k purses as party favors. We are rolling towards Armageddon….
The lack of social services in the US is insane. So ashamed of my country.
Yes. This is downright disturbing in its unhinged-ness and how flagrantly out of touch it is.
This is the most reasonable response to this display that I’ve seen yet.
AMEN!
OMG you can see her lipo scar in the Canadian tuxedo photos.
Yep
ok, thank you…I was wondering why her stomach, though flat, looked so weird, like it had been sculpted. there isn’t any muscle definition yet it looks so hard. I wondered if she had something like that done.
those pictures (the denim) also make me wonder if they’re not rolling. The bug-eyes, the sweatiness, the shades, the super-grins…I know it’s just pictures but it gives me that feeling.
Tinfoil hat time: I’m wondering if Julia planted the story about Drake buying her Birkins so Kanye would do something big for her birthday haha!
Possible they were superfakes?
Annnnnnnddd, the Birkin bag jumped the shark. This act devalued the bag.
I love how all of Julia’s “friends” are wearing black or black leather. I wonder how that party invite went out. “Ye says you have to look like you’re in a goth club from the ’90s. Otherwise don’t show.”
the way they’re all hard posing in that video clip-i thought it was some kind of parody.
RIGHT?! The posing was crazy! like an SNL skit.
Yeah, the posing. Ridiculous. I don’t know any of them (not that that matters) except Paloma Elsesser. Wondering who the one on the left with the UNDERBOOB is. Worried those things were gonna fall out. I’ll pass on that trend.
I love how you put “friends” in quotes. This looks more like an ad for some low-rent perfume that would sell at Walmart.
This is grooming. Not a project.
@Jodi- Grooming refers specifically to children and pedophiles. Julia is a grown ass woman, likely with a team of advisors. Do not even try to compare.
@Jodi: We don’t know how this situation will turn out yet, but based on Kanye’s behavior, you could be right. Grooming can involve adults in certain situations too (abusive relationships, religions/cults, hate movements). It doesn’t only apply to children and sexual predators. Even if you turn out to be wrong about Kanye’s behavior, that’s still better than the way so many on the internet water down a serious issue like that by using it as an insult, like Elon Musk.
The underboob being the new cleavage makes me cringe. I’d be terrified my nip would pop out! And the posers made me LOL – so thanks for that.
Kanye current look is totally ripped off from Shia labeouef
And this lady is thirsty… but I love how lainey and other gossip are selling her as a “hustler” lol
Does he think anyone believes or is impressed by this? It’s really kinda pathetic and silly.
Kanye tries so hard to impress. I used to find his talent impressive, but I can hardly remember the last time I felt that way.
Birkin and Kelly bags are still scarce. Kanye just has access.
perhaps he got them on ebay? there are hundreds available on there, and a lot of them look virtually unused. still pricey, but available immediately.
Perhaps he got them on EBay 😂
They’re both on drugs, right?
They have to be. This is not going to end well and frankly, there is something next level dark and concerning about his behavior.
Probably.
as I noted above, they both look like they’re rolling.
I guess my point was that Molly doesn’t turn you into a creep lord ex partner stalker and current gf love bomber who acts without a single rational inkling (?)
I kind of would to like use the „I am a Barbie girl in a Barbie world“ song over clips of them:
“ I’m a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation“
Isn’t that the case? That song fits them to a T.
Does she now own only the ? 3-4 outfits that Kenye deemed is her total wardrobe now?
I would like a baby Birkin. 🤷♀️
What a bunch of tacky, classless posers.
Scarce or not, luxury bags in general have lost their investment value by becoming really popular, the market got saturated (I mean, they are still pretty expensive but the reselling prices are not as high as people hoped).
Then, the satus symbol: when everyone from musicians, to footballer’s wives to influencers have plenty of them…yes, the snobs must be clutching their pearls thinking of new ways to be above the rest of us mortals.
Anyone see the war going on between Kim and Kanye on tiktok/twitter ? He shaded Kim for being divorced many times and said he doesn’t want North on Tik Tok. She responded with a lengthy reply saying how she’s the soul caregiver and financial supporter of their kids. I wonder when Kanye will break and really let the tea spill on the Kardashians. Seems like he’s ready.
But what tea could there really be? We already know that the bodies are fake, the billionaire status is fake, and the supposed business acumen is fake.
I maintain that she is in on the joke and is just enjoying the ride for as long as she can, whereas Kim really thought she was part of some kind of Beyonce/Jay Z level of power couple when in reality she was just a empty head dress up doll for him. I will never believe there was any real depth of feeling for either of them – I don’t think either of them are capable of it.
The whole thing would be funnier than it is if it wasn’t for the fact that we have their constant obnoxious one upmanship for PR in our faces. I assume a PMK planted story is coming soon about Kim and Pete or Kim suddenly remembering she was going for a law degree or that she has children. I don’t understand how people still cape for either of these self centered jackasses.
1990 Vogue video Madonna called and she wants her boob cones back.
Well shots have been fired by both sides in the Instagram war by both sides. Kardashians are going to learn they can’t control the narrative cause Kanye won’t be as easy to manipulate as Tristan was
I’m 60 and not much into fashion so I needed to Google to learn what a baby birkin bag is/cost.
WTH?
People are really losing their good sense if anybody spends that kind of $$ on a handbag.
Holy dancing cats that is unreal to me.
IMO, everyone should work hard to ignore Kanye, all the Kardashians, and 4 other celebs of their personal choice. 😀
Attention seeking, social media loving tools will wilt and die without all the attention.
Ugh to all of them.
Oh my. I always wondered how he ended up with the Kardashians, but he’s so EXTRA that it makes sense now. But whatever, a girl had a birthday party and everyone got expensive bags. All of these people are tone-deaf and enjoy being extravagent with their insane wealth.
I wonder what happened to her (ex?) husband and the baby (named Valentino) she had with him a year ago.
I’d bet he’s getting himself into major debt. The custody battle is turning ugly from what I’ve seen in other places, and I can’t see him getting out of that all. Complete self sabotage at every angle.
Pygmalion would imply she has something to learn and I think she’s well aware of what this does for her image.
Rather than the rains in Spain grammar lessons, I’m getting a strong 8 year old puts makeup and a tiara on the family pet feeling.
See, this is why reading the post is important. My very bad quick misreading of the title (lol) led me to think Kanye gave birth to a Birkin bag. And, I totally believed it. Because, of course he did.