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“Being independent, resilient, being a hustler, having a ride-or-die mentality, and overall just being really cute,” she responded in a 2020 interview when asked what qualities she shared with her on-screen character. The film, a high-stress rollercoaster following a charismatic jeweler and gambling addict played by Adam Sandler, and set in New York’s Diamond District, saw Julia playing a version of herself, a magnetic go-getter with an unwavering trust in her erratic partner that borders on the devotional.

Julia Fox’s first major brush with mainstream fame came in 2019 when she was cast in her debut film, Uncut Gems, by the sibling directors Benny and Josh Safdie, who she had met nearly a decade prior at SoHo cafe Jack’s Wife Freda. Photograph: Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for A24 Julia Fox with Kevin Garnett, The Weeknd and Adam Sandler at the Los Angeles premiere of Uncut Gems. What to make of this whirlwind romance, one month on from when the pair first met? Is it a genuine and unexpected intimate collaboration, or is the whole thing a performance art piece about celebrity divorce sponsored by Balenciaga and Interview Magazine? They have since been photographed wearing increasingly outlandish matching outfits everywhere from New York to LA to Paris Fashion week, where they made their red carpet debut at Kenzo in coordinated denim ensembles, accessorized with black gloves, and Julia’s trademark Black Swan-extra eye makeup, which looks as though she went to a child’s summer fete and asked for “a Batman”, but is actually applied by Ye himself.

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One saw them canoodling and trying on clothes in a hotel suite surrounded by assistants, another saw Fox dressed in an all-black custom leather outfit with echoes of her past as a professional dominatrix as she lay across a dinner table while Kanye pretends he is about to tuck in to her with a knife and fork.

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The new couple have been photographed in a series of high-profile, staged photoshoots. The resulting column, indeed titled Fox News, feels like a merchandisable asset of their burgeoning relationship.įox is Ye’s first girlfriend since separating from Kim Kardashian last year. And you’ll publish them … let’s call it ‘This Week in Fox News,” she tells an unnamed Interview journalist. “I’ll send pictures, I’ll tell you stories. But the line between relationship and art project has been consistently blurred since the pair met on New Year’s Eve in Miami, where they had an “instant connection”.įox is technically an interview subject in these Interview Magazine columns, yet it is clear that she’s the one calling the shots. Fox is the latest muse, and also girlfriend, of Kanye West – or Ye, as he now prefers to be called.

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