An unexpected visit
For the visit of his New York apartment on TikTok, last January, Julia Fox has accumulated over 16.6 million views. A nice score. AD knows it well, Home Tours of celebrities are a great success thanks to fascinating interiors, gardens as far as the eye can see, exceptional perspectives and dream dressing rooms… But it must be said that Julia Fox does nothing like the others. When she decides quite spontaneously – presumably – to share her house with the 1.7 million followers of her community, does she already know that she is going to revolutionize the genre? Its title: “very disappointing apartment visit”. And the trip to his New York daily life is indeed not what we expected…
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Julia Fox in her early days
With her slender silhouette (1.70 meters) which could have come out of the casting ofEyes Wide Shut, The Fox(her New York party-girl nickname) post-pandemic version has a side Misfits. Her appearance in the arms of Kanye West during Fashion Week last winter ranked her as a superstar in the eyes of the general public. ” Being with Kanye was like a crash course in learning how to be famous » she told the New-York Times on March 2022. “The media exposure was invaluable, she comments in the same article.
His first success, on Netflix, in 2019, is called Uncut Gems, a film by the Safdie brothers, cult directors in the middle of American independent cinema and produced by Martin Scorsese, had revealed a pretty doll with a Hollywood physique, a round face, big blue eyes, the air of a young light first… who hangs out with the wrong boys, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Resculpted after her pregnancy, Julia Fox returns with an emaciated face and body, darker than ever in designer clothes and a style that she defines from « dominatrix couture »a subtle tribute to her past as a (true) dominatrix.
Julia Fox is seen outside the Schiaparelli fashion show on January 24, 2022 in Paris, France.
A call to “transparency”
By opening the doors of her apartment in Yorkville, north of the Upper East Side, in Manhattan, Julia Fox breaks the myth of the red carpet-outfit of designer and millionaire on her arm. ” I never thought I would do this one day, but I believe in maximum transparency she comments at the opening of the video, in a tone that oscillates between candor and lucidity. ” I know I’m gonna get burned on the canvas, don’t judge me, I know it’s a mess “. Indeed, shoeboxes are piling up in the kitchen, her living room has turned into a bedroom and a playroom for her two-year-old son – who, she admits, sleeps with her and never sets foot in his, the plants do not grow. She hasn’t tidied up, let alone made her bed and explains after three minutes of video that cleaning is outsourced… by the presence of a mouse that nibbles on the crumbs that “Valentino knocks you down” overnight.
Americans are particularly surprised to see a celebrity living in a one-bedroom apartment… messy to say the least. America wonders about the bank account of the actress. Controversy. THE rumors on the web estimate it at $30 million. She contradicts in a video – a few days later, posted from a beach in the Bahamas: “ Not even in dreams “. Real estate agents speculate on the rental value of the place: it is estimated at $2,500 per month, less than the budget for a studio apartment in Manhattan.
Ye and Julia Fox are seen on January 23, 2022 in Paris, France.
Removing guilt and contradiction(s)
From memory, on social networks, no celebrity had yet dared to exercise. In any case, not in such a casual way. Julia Fox, on the pretext of benevolence: ” I hope that maybe it could help some people say, “well it’s okay, my situation is not that bad.” The move is bold. And wants to be consoling. Comments call it the“People’s Icon”. Because, instead of selling dreams, Julia implicitly recounts a slice of life from the Girl Next Door.
She seems happy to take the opposite view of Home Tours ultra-rich and comments at the end of the video: “ I don’t like excessive displays of wealth, it makes me nauseous, especially people with very big houses. It’s really wasteful, when there are so many homeless people in this country. I’m not really like that. »
Already last November, invited to the podcast d’Emily Ratajkowski High Low with EmRatashe announced the color: We live quite normally, I still live in the same small two-room apartment that I had before the pandemic. I drag my stroller up the stairs, it’s not glamorous at all but I want my son to grow up as grounded in reality as possible. »
Julia is not close to a contradiction. In a recent interview with Denny Direct on the Entertainment Tonight channel, the question of her romantic future is posed to her best friend, Niki Takesh, with whom she co-signs the podcast Forbidden Fruits.
Denny to Niki : “What kind of man do you see for Julia?” »
Niki : “Someone rich. Who has a demanding job…”
Julia : “(Laughs) We’re not going to apologize for our sugar-daddie tendencies. Life is hard. Yes, someone who travels a lot like that I don’t see him too often…”
Notice to amateurs.
Julia Fox and Ye are outside the Schiaparelli show, during Paris Fashion Week, January 24, 2022.
Towards a new trend?
A few weeks before her Home Tour, Julia Fox nevertheless boasted of a very complicit moment with a A Lister In l’émission « Watch What Happens Live » d’Andy Cohen sur Bravo TV. « We were on a private jet, we hugged, we landed, then we bought Chanel bags, it was awesome. So which Julia should we believe?
The actress was not mistaken. Obviously – and as expected – the memes started to rain on the Web after this visit to New York. American talk shows followed suit. The actress Sherri Shepherd is astonished in his daily show: ” What was Julia’s goal? Don’t you want to tidy up a bit before hitting the “record” button? »
Did Julia Fox launch a new trend? Will other celebrities dare to take the plunge? And now that Marie Kondo, the priestess of tidying up, has announced that she too has given up on all her principles and thrown in the towel since she had three children, we are impatiently awaiting the rest of the sagas. Home Tours to sicken all the masters of feng-shui.
