"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)."
"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.""
Julia Fox attended a Halloween party dressed as a post-assassination Jacqueline Kennedy, presenting the pink suit splattered with blood as a statement about trauma, power, and femininity as resistance. Fox framed the look as commentary on how people process violence, citing Kennedy's refusal to change from blood-stained clothes to make others "see what they've done." Jack Schlossberg criticized the outfit as glorifying political violence, calling it disgusting, desperate, and dangerous. Fox insisted the costume honored Kennedy's poise and exposed brutality through image and grace. The costume provoked debate about intention, taste, and referencing real historical trauma.
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