Julia Fox’s ‘Human Skin’ Kitten Heels Tell Us Weird Shoes Are Going Nowhere
glamour.commanages to stir morbid fascinations on almost every page of her best-selling memoir, Down the Drain. Sure, there are moments of —of private jets, Carbone, and thick wads of cash—but there are also stories set in psychiatric hospitals and BDSM basements.
Much like her fashion choices, Fox bounces through the glamour and the grotesque all the same.This is, after all, the woman who wore a handbag moulded in the shape of a six-foot corpse to New York Fashion Week in 2023, and a self-immolating trench coat to revisit the New York rooftop where her son “” in 2022.
Just last night, Fox wore a pair of trompe-l’œil kitten heels designed to look as though they had been crafted from the leather of human skin with a Knwls bomber jacket, a kidney-shaped Razr handbag, and hand-scribbled, cropped jeans.Julia Fox in Miami.Fashion observers will recognize these flesh-toned pumps as belonging to the same collaboration as —the tattoo-inspired artwork borrowed from Gaultier’s spring/summer 1994 collection, where industrial barbed wire wraps around haunted mansion lettering.
It’s about looking hot and hardcore, as if Julia Fox might have emerged from a dominatrix’s dungeon or a billionaire’s airplane, daring to face the “uglier” side of life.This article first appeared on By signing up you agree to our (including the ), our and to receive marketing and account-related emails from Glamour.
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