Can Timothée Chalamet Deliver Again These Y2K-Hottie Denims?

Although Timothée Chalamet simply earned his second Oscar nomination for portraying an early-career Bob Dylan in A Full Unknown, his most compelling efficiency this yr may very well be the quirked-up model of himself he crafted for the movie’s press tour. The general public-facing Timmy of the previous few months is a man who crashes his personal lookalike contest, rattles off soccer stats on ESPN, and rides Lime bikes on crimson carpets. He additionally, with the steering of his stylist Taylor McNeill, wears garments as in the event that they include riddles.

His newest brain-scrambling fashion transfer? To borrow a time period from the Chicago rapper Chief Keef, Chalamet has turn out to be a True Faith fein. The person’s been sagging his Y2K-baddie denims—a favourite of noughties Hollywood occasion ladies, 2010s rappers, and the solid of Jersey Shore—throughout city.

True Faith denims, recognizable by their thick white stitching and signature horseshoe imprint on the again pockets, are a relic of the early 2000s’ designer-denim growth; their ubiquity as soon as garnered a memorable namecheck from Fergie within the 2005 Black Eyed Peas music “My Humps.” The California-born upscale denim model faltered into the 2010s, however because of Gen Z’s hearty urge for food for nostalgic trend (and their relaxed definition of “classic” that connotes just about something predating the iPhone), the model has made a distinct segment comeback among the many TikTok-Pinterest fashionista set. And whereas Supreme launched a collaboration with the model in 2021, True Religions have but to attain a full-scale revival. Chalamet’s endorsement could present simply the correct of accelerant.

The actor first popped up in a pair of pale True Religions in late December, when he shocked followers with a surrealistic, performance-art-style, 13-minute Instagram livestream. Within the clip, he wore a white tank (which he later eliminated), cream-toned Nike Air Extra Uptemos, and people darn denims whereas he danced round a cavernous warehouse with a confetti cannon to “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas. (Huh, there are these Peas once more…) Then, quick ahead to final week, when Chalamet greeted followers in Paris in the same pair of True Religions and the identical off-white Uptemos. This time, he included them into his common post-swag assemblage of designer duds and winking merch: a Las Vegas Raiders windbreaker, a mini denim Chanel crossbody purse, studded leather-based belt, and a New York Metropolis Ballet baseball cap.

Days later, on the premiere of A Full Unknown in Rome, Chalamet channeled the colours of Italian flag in an identical True Faith set—a white-stitched denim jacket and thin pants, each the identical shade of deep crimson as a glass of Barolo—accessorized with an emerald inexperienced linen scarf and black Prada cowboy boots. (Fittingly, the cowboy-boot-wearing fashions on the Prada present just a few days later appeared to be channeling Timmy himself.) The caprese-toned outfit felt extra like an homage to 2 Chainz than to Bob Dylan, even when the musician was identified to rock jazzed-up Levi’s again in his day. Plus, Timmy has already worn what could possibly be thought of a double-denim ode to Bob.

However the actual whopper of an outfit appeared this week, when Chalamet was photographed assembly mates in Manhattan’s West Village. His low-slung True Religions held up by a flower-embossed leather-based belt, Chalamet blended bubblier items—a cotton-candy-pink Telfar puffer jacket, pink striped Chanel knit scarf, and a silver quilted Chanel crossbody bag—with greenish-brown Dr. Martens fight boots and a classy Arc’teryx emblem beanie in brown and acid inexperienced.

As my colleague Samuel Hine not too long ago put it, Chalamet is “essentially the most compelling fashion determine of our time as a result of he reacts to his growing fame not by smoothing his edges, however by getting more and more bizarre”—which, in itself, looks like a fairly Dylan-esque transfer. The actor is actually conscious of the viral potential of giving beloved Y2K fashions one other spin across the block; he despatched a ripple by the Twittersphere when he wore his personal child pink Juicy Couture hoodie proper right here within the pages of GQ again in 2020. I wouldn’t be shocked if he confirmed up on Saturday Evening Stay this weekend carrying full velour.