A man on the cover of British Vogue, it hadn’t happened since the creation of the British version of the prestigious fashion magazine, one hundred and six years ago. For Timothée Chalamet, the obvious was obvious, summarizes the editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful, in his editorial for the issue dated October 2022. As the title indicates, “All crazy about Timothée”, it is good the particular magnetism of “young prodigy” which won the membership of the monthly.
“Call it the Chalamet effect, Explain British Vogue. He’s everywhere, bewitching fans, directors, fellow actors, fashion houses and now Vogue, for whom the fourth-generation half-French, half-American New Yorker becomes the first man to appear solo on the print cover.”
Radiant energy
And the newspaper to evoke the marks of this “Chalamet effect”, the wide eyes of those who meet him, his radiant energy, “great for an actor, but exhausting for a human being”. His meteoric rise from his Oscar nomination for Call Me by Your Name in 2018, then Dune in 2021 and, this fall, Bones & All. In the skin of a cannibal in love, he finds there Luca Guadagnino, who has just won a silver lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Timothée Chalamet has everything of the chameleon. He “furiously follows fashion”, with a “style so innate and so sure of itself that it inspires both men and women”. His very first fashion shoot for this fall issue enchanted him. He has “loved the sequence”, et “compare his collaboration with [le photographe] Steven Meisel with [celle avec] Denis Villeneuve”, the director of Dune.
Handover
The article attempts to unravel the mystery: what makes him, at 26, “most desired in Hollywood” ? It is as if “the baton of witness had been passed down through the decades by James Dean and River Phoenix, David Cassidy and Leonardo DiCaprio”. But the journalist scratches in vain, the charming Timothée does not expand on his glory.
“To be honest, after a while in his company, you also start wondering if you know who you are…”