Some actors retain accents from their most impactful roles. Others, it appears, retain their character’s fashion sense. While best actor nominee Timothée Chalamet did leave the Oscars empty-handed last Sunday (in the words of at least one superfan: the Academy made their decision), it bodes that the rip-roaring experience of making—and promoting—the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown seems to have etched a permanent groove on his sartorial path moving forward.
During a coffee-and-bagel run in Los Angeles this week (a very New York meal for this native New Yorker), Chalamet looked casual in his usual uniform of designer streetwear. He layered a toffee-brown Celine Homme shearling jacket over a Supreme box logo tee, which he paired with ripped-knee khaki skinny pants and well-worn Nike Air More Uptempos. He accessorized with a trucker cap from the cult-favorite Japanese label Hysteric Glamour and dark sunglasses, also by Celine.
Coincidentally or not, Timmy’s Celine trucker jacket looked strikingly similar to the shearling coat the real Bob Dylan wore on the album cover of his eponymous 1962 studio debut that featured the folky ode “Song to Woody,” which Chalamet’s Dylan performs for Scoot McNairy’s Woody Guthrie early on in A Complete Unknown. Under the guidance of Oscar-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips, Timmy-as-Bob also wears a version of this outfit in the film. But given how deeply Chalamet immersed himself in Dylan lore for this role (in a recent interview with 60 Minutes, the actor suggested if he were to ever actually meet Dylan, he might “try to out-Bob him”), I’m erring on the side of not a coincidence.
