Jackie Kennedy's grandson Jack Schlossberg has ideas about Julia Fox paying homage to his late grandmother with a gory Halloween costume.
“Julia Fox glorifying political violence is disgusting, determined and harmful,” Schlossberg, 32, wrote through X on Friday, October 31. “I'm certain her late grandmother would agree.”
Jack is the one son of Caroline Kennedy and her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, who additionally share two daughters. Caroline's dad and mom had been Jackie and former president John F. Kennedy.
Fox, 35, had paid what she claimed was a tribute to Jackie together with her 2025 Halloween costume, dressing in a pink tweed go well with that was coated in pretend blood. Her outfit was paying homage to the ensemble that Jackie wore when John was assassinated in 1963. (Jackie later died in Might 1994.)
Fox's costume quickly sparked backlash, with some social media customers arguing that the actress was glorifying John's dying, although she later defended her outfit selection.
“I'm dressed as Jackie Kennedy within the pink go well with. Not as a dressing up, however as a press release,” Fox wrote through Instagram on Friday. “When her husband was assassinated, she refused to alter out of her blood-stained garments, saying, ‘I would like them to see what they've finished.' The picture of the fragile pink go well with splattered with blood is without doubt one of the most haunting juxtapositions in trendy historical past. Magnificence and horror. Poise and devastation.”
She continued, “Her determination to not change garments, even after being inspired to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was efficiency, protest and mourning abruptly. A girl weaponizing picture and beauty to reveal brutality. It's about trauma, energy, and the way femininity itself is a type of resistance.”
As for Jack, he has tirelessly labored to uphold his late grandparents' legacy via the years.
“I've all the time felt tremendous fortunate that there's this huge historic report about my household that I can be taught from. Lots of people don't get to have that form of relationship with their ancestors,” Jack instructed Vogue in a July 2024 interview. “I'm so fortunate for it, and so I attempt to be taught as a lot as I can from them. I feel my grandpa's speeches are the best issues ever. His administration truly did a lot that's nonetheless with us right now, and he impressed an entire era of individuals to enter public service — and nonetheless does.”
Jack additional referred to as John, who died at age 46 and by no means met his grandchildren, his “hero.”
“The very first thing I ever received actually nerdy about was him, his speeches and his administration,” Jack instructed the outlet. “It's a blueprint for the way progressivism can work in America and the way America can lead the world in a optimistic, optimistic, science-driven method. As I've grown up, I've turn into extra concerned within the official obligations that include being a part of my household.”
Jack additionally revealed that his household's legacy is to “attempt to keep optimistic about authorities” regardless of the partisanship and divisive political local weather.
“I attempt to keep optimistic, and for some cause, as of late, that's a novel perspective,” he stated. “To me, in the event you're going to speak about stuff, it's a duty to attempt to make it just a little bit higher.”
