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Seems like when he’s not channelling the spirit of the title character in his latest film, Wonka, Timothée Chalamet is tapping into one of his earliest roles for style inspiration.
Spotted courtside at a recent Los Angeles Clippers and the New York Knicks basketball game, star of everyone’s favourite candyman (second favourite Candyman, personally) was seen sporting a sweatshirt with a very, very familiar graphic. Familiar, I guess, if you sit bang in the centre of the Venn Diagram that is science fiction films and Timmy Chal’s body of work.
Featuring rows of books, the sweatshirt in question by Japanese brand Sacai is taken straught from the final scenes from Chalamet’s film Interstellar, which also starred Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. McConaughey’s character has travelled through a wormhole and found himself inbetween dimensions, depicted in some eternal Escher-esque version of the bookshelf in his daughter’s room.
Chalamet has become the master at bringing his characters into the real world through fashion, like a sartorial version of method acting. During the media call ahead of Dune 2, along with Zendaya, his outfits reflected the films specific styling: a vintage leather Helmut Lang vest from the designer’s Spring/Summer 1998 archive teamed with leather pants.
He’s also been bodying the role of Willy Wonka during his current red carpet run. Tom Ford suits inspired by chocolate or directly pulled from Wonka’s signature velvet plum look; a colourful houndstooth that transitioned to black and even a chocolate crocodile-embossed suit.
Honestly, after almost a year of strikes preventing celebrities from delivering weird and wonderful looks on the promotional beat for their films, Chalamet’s definitely making up for lost time.
