The model, actress and ex-girlfriend of rapper Kanye West was criticized on social media for wearing a bloody Jackie Kennedy costume on Halloween.
The 35-year-old actress recreated the image of the wife of 35th US President John Kennedy on the day he was assassinated. Fox wore a pink outfit consisting of a cropped jacket and midi skirt, along with a pillbox hat and blue accessories. The main details are red streaks and stains that imitate blood on the face and clothes.
The model posted the photos on her Instagram page and explained that this was “not a disguise but a statement”. She called the contrast between the delicate pink suit and the blood one of the most gruesome symbols of modern history.
“Beauty and terror, dignity and despair. Hers is an act of courage, protest and grief all at once. A woman uses image and grace as a weapon against cruelty. This is a story about vulnerability, strength and how femininity itself can be a form of resistance,” Fox said.
However, users said the outfit was not a tribute but an inappropriate shock. Commenters noted that it was like dressing up as a firefighter covered in ash, calling it “9/11 heroism.” The actress also pointed out that “other people's tragedies are not costumes.”
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas while driving around the city in an open car. The bullets hit him while he was driving next to his wife. It is known that the wife covered in her husband's blood refused to change her clothes and told the assistants: “No. Let them see what they did to Jack.”
Her pink suit, never washed afterward, became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. It is now housed at the National Archives in Maryland.
Before it has become famousU.S. House member Anna Paulina Luna released archived documents about the Kennedy assassination.
The document contains more than 100 archival documents, including transcripts of conversations between Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev and US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, secret telegrams from Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin, letters from representatives of the US government to Soviet leaders and much more.
