What Did Julia Fox Look Like Before Her Ye ‘Transformation’?

If you've glanced at the internet in the last week or so, chances are you've heard the news that Kanye West, or Ye as he prefers to be known these days, has a new girlfriend who is not Kim Kardashian. Nope, Julia Fox is nothing like his estranged wife. Oh, what's that she's wearing? Head-to-toe Balenciaga?

With all the inevitability of those dubious pixie crops in a Tyra Banks Top Model Makeover, Fox, it seems, is enjoying a Kanye West-engineered image overhaul, much like the Kardashian who came before her – and with all the same low-slung thong trousers, Balenciaga accessories and second-skin leather.

Ye's influence on Kardashian's style has been well-documented. Back in 2012, an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians showed Ye bring a stylist to Kim's house to clear out her closet. 'The trade-off was if I got rid of all my clothes, he would fill up my closet,' she said to camera. As he admires his then-girlfriend trying on sleeker designs from his favourite fashion houses, he says: 'It's like, I'm getting on best dressed lists now, I'm stepping all into this territory.'

Voguecovers followed, Met Gala invitations too and, as recently as last November during an interview with Drink Champs, Ye maintained that 'styling Kim, that’s a language of love for me. That how I bagged her in the first place.' Kim, with Ye's help, carved out a distinctive aesthetic – one which is now parroted by countless women across the world – defined by tight, sleek silhouettes crafted from form-fitting jersey and leather.

It is, of course, the sort of silhouette Kardashian now sells to her fans in the form of SKIMS, which is wildly successful even by Ye's standards. Product consistently sells out, waiting lists build in their thousands for new launches and the brand recently collaborated with Fendi on a special collection. As well as SKIMS' main campaigns which, naturally, tend to feature Kim front and centre, it also regularly recruits social influencers to model various pieces. One such previous model? Julia Fox.

And so we come full circle. Not only has Fox worked for SKIMS, the Uncut Gems actor also posed as a modern day Barbie to Pete Davidson's Ken for Paper magazine back in 2019. Davidson is, of course, now dating Kim Kardashian.

Just like Kardashian, Fox is openly speaking about the impact Ye is having on her image. In a piece forInterviewmagazine published on January 6, Fox wrote: 'After dinner Ye had a surprise for me. I mean, I’m still in shock. Ye had an entire hotel suite full of clothes. It was every girl’s dream come true. It felt like a real Cinderella moment.' Maybe Kim has déja vu.

In truth, Fox's own sense of style was already in line with the Ye-influenced Kardashian's. Already, articles have sprung up online picturing Julia and Kim in a variety of similar outfits over the past few years. Unlike the aforementioned Top Model Makeovers, Fox's Kanye treatment doesn't look particularly drastic.

Despite appearances, though, she is openly referring to her new look as a 'transformation.' When asked by Interview in a more recent piece published over the weekend, Fox said that Ye dreamed up said 'transformation' and made the whole thing come to life.

'After meeting him, a couple days later, all my shit was in boxes, gone. It was so cathartic. It wasn’t like I was just packing up my old clothes, it was like I was packing up my old life. I was like making that very conscious decision to really put everything in the box. To let go of the past.'