Timothée Chalamet Paired His New Goatee With Cooked Nike Air More Uptempos


We’re still a full week out from Christmas, but Timothée Chalamet’s freewheelin’ A Complete Unknown press tour just keeps on delivering gift after delightfully bizarre gift. First, there was College GameDay Timmy, who paired a scintillating Martine Rose parka with surprisingly elite gridiron analysis. There was BeyBlade Timmy, who mysteriously gripped one of the early-aughts Japanese toys on the red carpet of the Bob Dylan biopic’s Hollywood premiere with zero explanation. There was Modern-Day Dylan Cosplay Timmy, who showed up at the New York premiere in a head-to-toe facsimile of a look the actual Dylan wore to Sundance in 2003—an inevitability GQ’s own Eileen Cartter predicted 16 months ago!—with a swoopy bleach-blond fringe peeking out from beneath a slouchy knit beanie.

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And today, most blessedly of all, we’ve been given Tim-goatee Chalamet. (Sorry.)

A chin-scruffed Chalamet reunited with his Lady Bird costar Saorsie Ronan at a BFI event in London on Wednesday.

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Yes, barely two weeks after Jacob Elordi caused a veritable civil war on Twitter by unveiling an itchy-looking Michael McDonald beard, Chalamet has responded with a facial hair…choice of his own. In the midst of the Elordi beard controversy, I called up a couple of master barbers in an attempt to better understand why the internet was so split on it. I can say now with certainty that I will not need any expert commentary to diagnose the issue with Chalamet’s goatee. It is the sort of patchy undergrowth possessed only by Wendy’s-parking-lot weed dealers and college sophomores dressing up as Captain Jack Sparrow to their frat’s Halloween party. It is a soul patch that suddenly felt insecure and crawled down to hide beneath the chin. It is…just not right. And yet, in the manner of his heartthrob forebear Brad Pitt’s mid-2000s lost-in-the-woods bearded era, I’m sorry to report that Chalamet is ethereally beautiful enough to damn near make it look good.

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The same can be said for the rest of his outfit on this particular occasion, which I was too distracted by the goatee to mention was a British Film Institute event in London hosted by Chalamet’s Lady Bird and Little Women costar Saoirse Ronan. He wore a boxy, beat-to-hell leather peacoat over an untucked yellow oxford shirt and baggy, sagging cargo pants—a typically chaotic, post-swag Timmy ensemble that only he can really make work.

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