Julia Fox Responds To Backlash Over Jackie Kennedy’s ‘Sick’ Halloween Costume: ‘It’s About Shock And Power’
Julia Fox has defended her controversial Jackie Kennedy dress after facing backlash.
The 35-year-old actress created a blood-soaked replica of the famous pink-dressed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis when her husband, President John F. Kennedy, rode in a car with her in 1963.
Photos of Fox at a New York City Halloween party on Thursday quickly went viral, with social media users calling the costume “insensitive.”
“This is sick and disgusting!” One of them criticized X, writing in another: “He calls himself a feminist but wants to make fun of a woman who was probably at the most painful moment of her life. Funny.”
Jack Schulzberg, the Kennedys’ own grandson, shared a post saying: “Julia Fox’s praise of political violence is disgusting, disappointing and dangerous. I’m sure her late grandmother would agree.”
However, Foxx said in a statement that he dresses as Onassis “not as a costume, but as a statement.”
“When her husband was killed, she refused to change her blood-soaked clothes, saying, ‘I want them to see what they have done.’
She continued: “Her decision not to change clothes, even after being prodded, was an extraordinary act of courage. It was an act, a protest, a mourning. A woman with image and grace as a weapon to expose brutality. It’s about shock, strength and femininity that is itself a form of resistance.”
“Long live Jackie O,” he concluded. The former first lady died in 1994 at the age of 64.
After Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Kennedy, Onassis’ pink Chanel suit covered her husband’s head in blood. Thirty minutes after the shooting, Kennedy was killed.
Onassis refused to change his bloody clothes and said he regretted washing his face and hands. At the time, he was quoted as saying he wanted to “see what they did to Jack.”
Hours after the assassination, she wore a blood-stained dress while standing next to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and being sworn into the Air Force.
Even with details of Fox’s arrest to honor her, fans were not convinced that Onassis would be honored at the ceremony, especially after the first lady’s rose garden was recently planted in the new White House renovations.
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