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Fox said she dressed up as a bloodied Jacqueline Kennedy “not as a costume, but as a statement.”
Actress Julia Fox is facing backlash over a controversial Halloween getup that she says is a statement rather than a costume.
On Friday, Fox, 35, posted a photo of herself on Instagram dressed as Jacqueline Kennedy in a bloodied pink suit similar to the Chanel suit the former first lady wore the day her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated
President Kennedy, a Brookline native, was shot and killed on Nov. 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. His wife, Jackie, was by his side during the incident.
Fox also wore the costume to a Halloween party hosted by writer Julio Torres on Oct. 30.
Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, publicly shamed Fox’s costume choice on X, calling it “disgusting, desperate and dangerous.”
“Julia Fox glorifying political violence is disgusting, desperate and dangerous. I’m sure her late grandmother would agree,” Schlossberg wrote.
Fox defended the costume, writing in the photo’s caption: “I’m dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit. Not as a costume, but as a statement. 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 continued, “Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. 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.”
The first lady’s suit was not cleaned after President Kennedy’s assassination, and it remains at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
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