Julia Fox Turns Fashion Into Performance Art, Rejects the Male Gaze
In a candid new interview, the actress and style provocateur explains why her “polarizing” looks are just everyday New York and why honesty is her ultimate accessory.
New York, August 19 EST: Julia Fox walks into a room like a painting sprung to life bold strokes, sharp edges, textures layered on top of textures. To some, she’s “too much.” To others, she’s a revelation. To her, she’s just being normal. Or at least normal by New York standards, where the theater spills onto the streets and an outfit can be as much performance as protection.
Dressing Like A Story
Fox doesn’t just wear clothes; she narrates through them. A vinyl trench isn’t a trench it’s a character. A shredded denim bikini isn’t just denim it’s a role, a mood, a wink at the absurd. “Each of my outfits has to have some kind of meaning that I can tap into then play that character,” she told Allure. She’s not interested in pretty for pretty’s sake. She’s interested in tension, in leaving you unsettled but curious, like you’ve just stumbled across an avant-garde play in a basement theater downtown.
That’s the part outsiders miss, the part she tried to explain in her chat with People. When critics call her style “polarizing,” she laughs it off as provincial. “To a New Yorker, [my style] is normal,” she said. “But I could see how someone who’s not used to that would be like, ‘What’s wrong with her?’… To me, that says more about them than it does about me, because, like, damn, you’ve never gone to the theater? You’ve never opened an art book?”
It’s a sharp retort, but it’s also affectionate. She’s throwing an arm around you and saying Come on, don’t be afraid there’s more to see.
Cutting The Cord To Male Validation
There’s another shift happening with Fox, one that feels less visible but more profound. She’s been celibate for over two years, and the way she describes it sounds less like denial and more like reclamation. Without the constant hum of male expectation, she says she feels creatively unshackled. No second-guessing, no compromises. Just clarity.
It’s not about being against men it’s about carving out space for her own gaze. The outfits, the decisions, the unapologetic transparency they’re all coming from her, not calibrated for someone else’s approval.
Honest About The Nip, The Tuck, The Shine
In a culture where celebrities often treat cosmetic procedures like state secrets, Fox doesn’t bother with coyness. She’s open about the liposuction, the rhinoplasty, the veneers. There’s no shame, no whisper. Just plain talk. “I think people need to be honest about it,” she said.
And here’s where her honesty stings in the best way. It forces you to confront how much smoke and mirrors the beauty industry survives on. If one of Hollywood’s most daring style figures can say, “Yep, I had work done, and here’s why,” it blows a hole through the fantasy machine.
Pansexual, Playful, And Unscripted
Fox also dropped a truth about her heart she’s pansexual. For her, attraction isn’t about gender it’s about energy. About vibes. About the spark that can come from anywhere, anyone. That revelation feels of a piece with everything else she’s saying unbound, uncategorized, uninterested in tidy boxes.
It also deepens the sense that she’s writing her own script. Instead of folding herself into someone else’s idea of beauty, sexuality, or womanhood, she’s improvising. Day by day. Outfit by outfit.
The Everyday Spectacle
If you’ve followed Fox since Uncut Gems, you know she has a knack for transforming a sidewalk into a runway, a tabloid headline into a piece of art. Wrapped in caution tape at a Milan show, parading in head-to-toe silver latex, even stepping out barefaced in sweats each move is a performance, yes, but also a dare.
She’s asking Why shouldn’t everyday life be theater? Why shouldn’t the subway platform be a stage? She’s not hiding the seams of her life; she’s making them part of the act.
Where She Goes From Here
Fox hasn’t mapped out her next big project, at least not publicly. But watching her, you get the sense that’s the point. She isn’t following a five-year plan; she’s following instinct. The art of the moment.
And maybe that’s why her story resonates right now. In a world that feels increasingly polished, branded, and filtered to death, Julia Fox is messy on purpose. Messy like paint on your hands. Messy like life when you actually live it.
For now, she’s not asking us to like it. She’s asking us to see it. And maybe, if we’re lucky, to feel a little braver in our own skin too.
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