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Performance art: it’s not in the eye of the beholder, but in the accompanying artist statement. Julia Fox has released an abstract for her Jackie Kennedy Halloween costume statement on “trauma, power, and how femininity itself is a form of resistance.” Fox has been receiving backlash over the fit all day, including Twitter shade from Jackie’s grandson Jack Schlossberg. She went to Julio Torres’ Cursed Amulet party as a post-assassination Jacqueline Kennedy (or Parker Posey in The House of Yes, it’s a versatile costume). Schlossberg tweeted “Julia Fox glorifying political violence is disgusting, desperate and dangerous. I’m sure her late grandmother would agree.” But Fox feels people are misunderstanding her intentions.
The party’s theme was “Mommy’s Moods,” and according to Fox’s social media, her mood was “Poise and devastation.” She explained the outfit wasn’t a glorification of violence but commentary on how we process it. “I’m dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit. Not as a costume, but as a statement,” she wrote. “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.” Fox saw the outfit as “A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality,” and she wanted to honor that. Someone’s been rewatching Jackie.
