Hope everyone had a happy, safe Halloween! I went as a worried mom while my long-haired Chihuahua went as a floof needing to see the vet over a hind leg issue. Oh wait, those weren’t costumes… All’s ok, turns out My Guy has a displaced knee cap on his left leg, which our vet said was common for small dogs. Still, it’s been distressing for both of us! And speaking of distressing, Julia Fox made sure her costume for the holiday was upsetting and attention-seeking. While attending a party in NYC, Julia showed up as First Lady Jackie Kennedy, donning her iconic pink Chanel suit. From the neck up, I actually thought Julia made a decent Jackie. But this is Julia Fox, stunt queen, so she took a major detour to the corner of tacky and tasteless by smearing fake blood over the suit, representing JFK’s blood after he was assassinated sitting next to his wife. JFK and Jackie’s grandson Jack Schlossberg called Julia’s choice “disgusting, desperate and dangerous.” I quite agree.
Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy’s grandson, had some things to say about Julia Fox’s costume of choice.
Yesterday, Fox made an appearance at The Cursed Amulet’s Halloween Party in New York City wearing Jackie Kennedy’s infamous pink suit. The costume immediately went viral online for a specific reason — the suit was covered in blood, to represent Kennedy’s appearance after the assassination of her husband.
Social media exploded in debate, wondering if Fox took it too far with her costume with users commenting on the insensitivity of the outfit.
“Honestly, what she did is beyond disrespectful. who thinks it’s okay to turn someone’s real-life tragedy into a halloween costume? it’s just disturbing. I’m sorry you had to see it,” said one user.
Amid the discourse, Schlossberg, Kennedy’s grandson, spoke his mind regarding the situation.
“Julia Fox glorifying political violence is disgusting, desperate and dangerous,” he said earlier today on X. “I’m sure her late grandmother would agree.”
A minute after his message was posted, Fox shared an Instagram statement explaining why she picked this historical moment for her Halloween getup.
“I’m dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit. Not as a costume, but as a statement,” Fox began.
“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,” she noted. “Beauty and horror. Poise and devastation.”
“Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery,” Fox stated. “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 ♥️”
Jack, the son of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, is Jackie’s only grandson; the former First Lady passed away in 1994, when Schlossberg was one year old.
“Not as a costume, but as a statement.” Ugh. Sorry, Julia, but you don’t get to show up to every event in aggressively outrageous clothing (or in many cases, a lack of clothing), and then claim there’s a political statement behind one that gets called out for being tasteless. Adding the fake blood was meant to shock; it evokes a striking image of one of the worst moments in our country’s history, the visual of which is seared into the minds of many. And Jack Schlossberg is right that it’s a dangerous time to mix playing with political violence with playing dress up. The outfit was definitely meant to shock, and, like most of Julia’s ensembles, to get attention. When someone so consistently presents themselves in costume — whether it’s Halloween or not — at a certain point it sends the message that the person isn’t comfortable just showing up as themselves. And that’s rather sad. Y’all know I love Lady Gaga, and she absolutely started out in this way, always appearing in costume as a form of armor. She can still be plenty wackadoodle in her fashion, but there was definitely an evolution; more self-acceptance in showing up without the gimmicks. For Julia’s sake, I hope she gets to that place as well.
I agree with him.
Yes I agree also..
Julia Fox will do anything for attention, no matter how crude and distasteful it may be.
I was shocked when I saw the photos of her “costume” and then shrugged because of course Julia Fox would pull a stunt like this. Like Jack Schlossberg said her choice was disgusting, desperate and dangerous.
Seeing some come to her defensive was equally as disgusting. Some people are just so selfish.
There’s a difference between making a statement and making a fool of yourself by creating a tasteless, shocking outfit.
What statement was she even supposed to be making? Doesn’t make sense.
That’s the thing. Jackie was making a statement, Julia was just making a spectacle of herself with another woman’s pain. Appalling.
Julia’s excuse might carry marginally more weight if she’d done the look for an arty photo shoot or something. It would still be offensive and stunty, of course, but if you’re a shallow, unintellectual person with an audience of the same, sure, that might pass for a “statement”. Anything you wear on Halloween is just a costume and you’re doing it for fun and/or shock value.
There’s nothing wrong with admiring Jackie Kennedy as a person or as a fashionista. There’s nothing wrong with admiring her choice to stay clothed in her husband’s blood for the world to see. There is EVERYTHING wrong with using that as a Halloween costume. MyGawd. Halloween can be a time to make a social statement, but it’s not a time to deliberately cruel towards living descendants.
Usually Julia’s outfits feel like a breath of fresh air in a world where most celebrities have become so bland and safe. I always think of her outfits as a type of performance art. This costume might be in bad taste, but it succeeded in getting her attention.
I’m saving my outrage for the cutting of SNAP benefits.
Not shocked. My very overweight, gay male friend wore the same outfit with blood many years ago. Shrug.
Yeah, seriously, it’s just Halloween, folks. Which, since I was a tot, has largely been about blood, gore and shock value.
I was 9 years old on November 22, 1963. How old were you?
Wasn’t born yet. TOO SOON? Come on, it was 62 years ago,
i was 8, I remember it, and am not offended. If you’re offended at this, I hope you’re offended by Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and every other serial killer costume. Someone’s family member was killed by them too. In fact I knew one of Ted Bundy’s victims.
@bluhare & @betsy: 💯💯💯💯. I was about three and a half when it happened. I only remember because I saw my mother cry for the first time and she took me to a (Catholic) mass.
Neither I nor my family ever idolized politicians and their wives, however. Perhaps it is a regional thing. I am from the Pacific Northwest and I never viewed Kennedy as the demi-god that’s some appear to.
@bluhare, so sorry about your acquaintance. I am convinced that I met Ted Bundy during one of his travels to Oregon. I grew up near Reed College and was coming home from school, wearing an entirely too short of a dress, and saw a pervy looking guy, wearing a suit, staring at my legs when I got off at the bus stop.
I chatted with a friend for about 15 minutes at the bus stop and then we separated to go home. I turned around then and realized that this guy had been standing there the whole time and he came up to me I started screaming at him and ran back into the middle of the street yelling at him to gp away, and then ran home through backyards. A few days later a girl in Corvallis went missing and they think she was one of Bundy’s victims.
I didn’t think too much of that creepy experience until a while later when I actually saw a picture of Ted Bundy and I was like: oh my god, that’s him!
The early ’70s were a really scary time for girls and women because there was still a vestige of the 60s attitude of openness and trust but accompanied by a seeming rise in predators taking advantage of that. Particularly around colleges and universities. Or, maybe it was just reported more in the press.
Would I take offense at somebody wearing a Ted Bundy costume for Halloween? No.
It’s not a very good political statement if nobody gets it. In any case, I don’t believe her.
Pathetic. I was disgusted by her choice, and don’t believe her BS attempt to defend herself. You shouldn’t cash in on other people’s tragedy.
Tacky. And not in a good way either.
What Jackie did was a statement because it was HER. Her clothes, her body, her husband, his actual brain fragments on her clothing just two hours after he was shot. Someone else can’t play dress up and claim the same kind of statement.
Well said.
Exactly.
I caught a clip of Julia’s red carpet interview at whatever event she was at and she turned Jackie’s 2nd married name Onassis into some pun about asses. So no, she wasn’t making a brave statement until Jackie’s grandson called her out.
Who is Julia Fox? And why is she being compared to a multiple-platinum recording artist, who is proficient at several musical instruments, and who has raised millions of dollars for both youth mental health and COVID-19 relief?
And who was her grandmother?
Not surprised by this. This is the same woman who dated Kanye during his neo-n*zi era for attention. She sucks.
So NOW folks here realize that Julia Fox is a horrible person. I’m sure it wasn’t at the point where showed her and her son living in a roach infested apartment. Or her and Kanye, she used a mentally ill person ( I’m no fan of his ) for clout, Now you figure out she’s terrible. Okay. It’s tacky and she’s wearing a family’s grief as a costume. That’s what’s wrong in this country and why we’re at the point we’re at. Too many want to excuse BS.
??? She lives in New York, there are roaches. That’s not a kind of moral failing. The rest, sure, but not that.
He was right.