Julia Fox simply insisted that her Halloween costume pay tribute to Jackie Kennedy’s “extraordinary bravery.”
The 35-year-old star faced criticism after attending Julio Torres’ party in a blood-spattered pink skirt suit and a hat with white gloves, which mimicked the then-First Lady’s outfit when her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in November 1963, but has defended herself amid accusations of being “insensitive.”
Sharing photos of herself in the suit, Julia wrote on Instagram: “I’m dressed like Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit.”
She continued: “Not as a disguise, but as a statement. When her husband was murdered, she refused to change her blood-stained clothes and said, ‘I want them to see what they have done.'”
“The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is one of the most disturbing juxtapositions in modern history. Beauty and horror. Poise and devastation,” added the talent of Him.
“Her decision not to change her clothes, even after being encouraged to do so, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest and mourning all at the same time. A woman who uses image and grace as weapons to expose brutality. It is about trauma, power and how femininity itself is a form of resistance. Long live Jackie O,” Julia Fox concluded.
