Is there anybody left who hasn’t heard of Julia Fox? Not a day goes by where Julia isn’t foxing our feeds, burrowing into our alerts. She steps out, she dines in, she birthday parties. But Julia Fox is more than a hot girl and more than an It-Girl. Julia Fox in a phenomenon like the northern lights, shimmering above us without quite feeling real. As much as we try and intellectualize her celestial rise, Julia Fox is the moment, she is right now. At times, it feels like Julia Fox is the Internet; if you are online, you are a scroll away from her.
There was a time when she was hot, rather than molten and omnipresent. For me, the slingshot of her rise is astounding. It started off a mere six weeks ago on New Year’s Eve (were we ever so young?) when she met Kanye West, and she entered into what felt like a showboating relationship with the king of hype.
With Kanye came a love quadrangle with Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, ramping up the hysteria. There were a lot of midriff-baring outfits, rumored to be orchestrated by Kanye. There was the raccoon-y eye makeup (I don’t mean that unkindly). There was all her friends getting gifted birthday Birkins. Julia felt willingly swept up in the Kanye Experience, but I had a sense that she was not completely autonomous. She was along for the ride, but was she steering?
Then she and Kanye split, and this might have been the moment where Julia peeled off into the relatively obscure world of excellent independent art-house film. But Julia’s retort to the papers revealed her savvy instincts, her self-knowing, saying she hadn’t cried since 1997 (not unlike Prince Andrew and sweating). Her note to the press felt unapologetic, and baller. She even referred to herself as a “#1 hustler.” Excellent.
In characteristic living-life-at-full-throttle mode, Julia has charged forwards harder than ever post-breakup. In the last two days alone we’ve had a Juergen Teller shoot, a LaQuan Smith revenge dress (with a lot of underboob and a sort of steering wheel breastplate), and a mention of goblin mode being the reason for the Kanye split (I think this in like Airplane mode when you’re flying with magical folk?). I cannot stress this enough but her pronunciation of Uncut Gems on a podcast drove people utterly mad. There’s even talk of a collaboration with the turbo-grifter Anna Delvey.
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