Women lost their lives so I can be naked, says Julia Fox

For New York Fashion Week, Julia Fox first posed nearly naked in a Seks metal bikini hanging by threads of silver chains.

The next day, she wore wristwatches as a bra top with a matching mini skirt by Hodakova.

Then she busted out black leather pasties and a torso-baring corset with skin-tight leather leggings falling far below the belt by day and took the night in a white leather mini skirt and cleavage-baring corset.

Now Fox, the 33-year-old who catapulted to mainstream fame with “Uncut Gems,” and had a very public relationship with rapper Kanye West, is defending her right to bare all.

“Women lost their lives so that we can dress like that,” Fox exclusively told The Post Friday in Soho.

“The amount of negative feedback was really crazy. People want women to behave and be covered up like you’re in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ or something.”

Her favorite look of Fashion Week? The most revealing number.

“The two piece bikini – I think that was my favorite with the trench over it,” Fox told the Post, of the sliver of silver metal covering her private parts during the PrettyLittleThing runway show.

Slipping into the tiny number, she said, had its challenges.

“We had some moments where the chain popped off but it was easy to fix,” she said.

“That was our first look, it was the start of fashion week. I wanted to go ‘boom’ after being asleep all summer. Just come back – I’m back, ‘I’m here.’ I didn’t expect for it to really go so nuts,” Fox said, at the premiere of her fashion film, “Le Robo Una Rosa” with Spanish designer Luis De Javier.

Fox says tuning out the haters and tuning into her own taste is what gives her confidence on the red carpet or the runway.

“A lot of times when people get dressed they’re thinking, ‘will other people like it?’ And I’m always just thinking, ‘do I like it?’ I have to think it’s cool and then I don’t really give a s–t what other people think,’” she said.

Her most modest look, perhaps, was at the Victoria’s Secret red carpet on Thursday, wearing a semi-sheer silver gown and black angel wings. And Sunday, she stepped out in a belly-baring, sheer Jean Paul Gaultier knit look.

Fox, born in Italy and raised in New York City, has had quite the style evolution since catapulting to mainstream fame in the 2019 Safdie brothers’ Diamond District thriller “Uncut Gems.”

Back then, she exuded Hollywood glam wearing a Paco Rabanne crystal skirt over a turtleneck bodysuit to the premiere of the Adam Sandler movie.

She became West’s muse during their short-lived relationship in 2022. Her memoir, “Down the Drain,” out Oct. 10 will dig into the relationship.

Her fashion evolved to dominatrix-inspired looks thigh-high Balenciaga boots, red Rick Owens gowns, denim cone bras by Schiaparelli, black leather leggings and her signature “Fox eye” black winged eye makeup.

But shock factor has been in her recent style guide — in May, she wore a sheer condom tube top. And she walked the Alexander Wang runway in a black blazer over a sheer, crystal-covered dress sans bra to in the designer’s pre-Fashion Week show.

Chris Parnell, head of design at Pretty Little Thing, told the Post Fox “isn’t afraid to take risks” and says the message behind her fashion statement is “freedom and self-expression.” 

 “If she wants to do something she does it confidently. It’s empowering,” Parnell said.

Avon Dorsey, a celebrity fashion stylist and creative director, says Fox’s style has evolved from glam to avant-garde edgy, describing her current image as “darker and sleek post-punk.” 

“She’s gone from ‘glam girl’ to ‘goth girl.’ Ditching her previous box-office bombshell looks for a more darker and sleek post-punk image,” Dorsey told The Post.

He said the current look was “racy second-skin ensembles, sky high platform heels, dramatic make-up and goth-centric accessories.”

Gone are the days when the nip slip was taboo, as stars embraced the naked fashion trend into Fashion Week.

Naomi Campbell took the PrettyLittleThing runway last Tuesday in a sheer black crystalline embellished halter neck maxi dress.

“Showing skin is somewhat controversial but it’s something we have seen for centuries,” Parnell told The Post.

“So many new brands are building their identity and ethos around classical and historical fashion as we saw with Vivienne Westwood. I also think it’s having the right to your own body and expressing it from a political aspect. It’s about freedom and self-expression.”

Fox, who has previously said “my body is not a crime,” says the message behind her naked fashion is more about her than everyone else. 

“It’s not like I’m doing it to attract men – that’s not what it’s about at all,” she told The Post.

 “I just want a good photo in my look to be honest.”