Jack Schlossberg called out actor Julia Fox for her Halloween costume depicting the late Jackie Kennedy in the blood-stained pink suit she continued to wear after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
“Julia Fox glorifying political violence is disgusting, desperate and dangerous,” Schlossberg, the grandson of the late John F. Kennedy, wrote Friday on social media. “I’m sure her late grandmother would agree.”
Fox’s costume was a replica of the famous pink Chanel suit Jackie Kennedy was wearing while riding in the convertible with her husband during a parade in 1963 in Dallas, Texas, when the president was shot and killed. Jackie Kennedy’s suit became stained with John F. Kennedy’s blood during the assassination and even though people around her encouraged her to change, Jackie Kennedy insisted on wearing the bloody suit during that afternoon’s swearing-in of Lyndon B. Johnson as president.
Fox, who is known for her role in 2019’s “Uncut Gems,” showed off the costume Thursday night at a Halloween party in New York City and told Vulture that she was “Jackie O Nasty.”
“Tonight, I’m serving bloody diva single mom who is about to cash that check,” Fox said.
But in an Instagram post with the comments turned off, Fox had a different tone.
“I’m dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit,” Fox wrote Friday on Instagram along with a photo of her in the costume. “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.
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.”
People took to social media to both condemn Fox and show their support.
“I think this is in really bad taste girl,” one person wrote on Vulture’s Instagram.
“Super tasteless,” another person wrote.
“yall luv dark humor until a woman does it huh,” one person wrote with more than 4,000 likes.
Neither Fox nor Schlossberg’s reps immediately responded to a request for comment.
