Leave it to Julia Fox — actor, author, model, and reigning internet cool-girl — to successfully style a pair of $52 dishwashing gloves at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Last week’s ceremony was filled with all kinds of whimsical sartorial moments, from Chappell Roan’s rodeo clown get-up to Sabrina Carpenter’s perfectly kitsch plumage, and it all affirmed my belief that strange times call for stranger fashion in the best way possible. Fox’s rubber gloves, however, took the cake for as far as accessories were concerned:
The brand behind the gloves she wore to the Grammy’s is Gohar World, a sister-run NYC atelier that specializes in home goods and kitchen tools with a surreal edge — take, for instance, its egg chandelier (eat your heart out, Dalí), chicken foot pearl jewelry, and a lemon-squeezer shaped like a swan which, at $38, is still pricey but not unfeasible.
The $52 gloves in question are, naturally, made out of rubber — and come in colorway options of yellow, pink, and blue — with white lace trim, and include a little pearl embellishment on the finger. You can also opt to personalize the gloves with a name or monogram on the site. Alternatively, you could buy a 3-pack of rubber gloves on Amazon for one-fifth of the price, and plug in your glue gun. But that’s also not the point (reminder: absurdist joy! Unbridled expression in the subversion of what has sometimes been seen as an oppressive domestic symbol!).
Gohar World has been on my radar ever since I saw its Marie Antoinette-worthy baguette bag, which is wildly out of my price range, but continues to aspirationally linger in my tabs. Fox has become a champion of sustainable and small-scale fashion, often choosing to wear emerging labels and indie brands that work with upcycled and unconventional materials, including old flip phones, chainmail, and fall foliage.
Fox’s gloves may not be the most practical accessory, but that’s not what I’m hoping for from the Grammy’s red carpet fashions. I come to feast at the table of escapism — a place at which Fox has certainly earned a powerful seat.