Is Timothée Chalamet Embracing His Inner Bob Dylan?

By Eileen Cartter

Ever since returning to his hometown of New York City last week, Timothée Chalamet has been out and about in some of his most Timothée Chalamet-esque outfits in years. Which is to say: He’s been on a real post-swag heater.

He’s revived the past-their-prime Converse x Commes de Garçons “heart eyes” high-tops. He’s worn Supreme cargo sweatshorts and Trae Young sneakers to play pickup basketball with Adam Sandler. Now, he’s demonstrated the most chaotic way to wear a Canadian tuxedo and a beanie—in the dead of summer, no less. On Tuesday, the actor went for a stroll in Manhattan with his movement coach Polly Bennett and dialect coach Tim Monich for A Complete Unknown, the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic; he was wearing, fittingly enough, a Bob Dylan T-shirt. The rest of his outfit, however, doesn’t make as much sense: Over the tee he layered a faded denim jacket and matching bootcut jeans from Courrèges, which he paired with glitter-flecked Saint Laurent cat-eye glasses and cannage-print Dior shoes. The kooky cherry on top—also from Kim Jones’s latest Dior menswear collection—was a couture crochet beanie with a tulle-trimmed opening at the top, through which Timmy’s curls protruded.

Wearing an open-top floral Dior stocking cap with the roof down like it’s a Murcielago? Now that’s peak post-swag.

Amid the current SAG-AFTRA/WGA strike, Chalamet is presumably still trying to keep his Dylan persona sharp for when production on A Complete Unknown resumes. With this look, some on Twitter wondered if Timmy was somehow channeling the real-life Bob Dylan’s brief bangs-and-beanie phase, as seen when the musician attended the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. There’s a slight “bohemian chapeau” air to the whole thing.

Beyond the perplexing nature of Chalamet’s outfit from a thematic standpoint, it was also whimsically unseasonal. Temperatures reached the high 80s in New York City yesterday, interspersed with a massive thunderstorm in the middle of the afternoon. But who are we to argue with Timmy and his infectiously silly sartorial mood? Drop the top on that beanie and keep on cruising, sir.