VOGUE UK October 2022
“No hard drugs and no superhero movies,” Titanic heartthrob bequeathing TIME magazine Next Generation Leader cover star, nicknamed ‘thé sucré’（甜茶）in Asia, TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET, for whom the half-French, half-American, fourth-generation New Yorker becomes the first man to appear solo on the print cover of VOGUE UK. With angular facial silhouette, abundant wavy hair lock, fluent French and playful American accents, Timethée Chalamet was under my radar since Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, while not until Great Gerwig’s Lady Bird did I detect the touch of his masculinity, with his maturity in David Michôd’s The King, my attention to Timothée effect has paying high ever since.
Photographs by Steven Meisel and styling by Edward Enninful under photo shoot for VOGUE UK October 2022 issue, Timothée Chalamet wears Balmain leather trousers mix-and-match with fringed leather waistcoat, a vintage T-shirt, or merely half-naked. With the upcoming premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, the inspiration of nomad style with MIUMIU leather boots and Intimissimi cotton vest, Chalamet’s greasy messy or spiky pinkish punk hairdos do not quite meet his melancholy still warmly energetic personalities.
Partly a road movie, purely an addiction allegory, Timothée Chalamet in Bones and All plays cannibal drifter, Lee, opposite to Taylor Russell, on a bloodied, nomadic flee through America. It is a performance highly pristinely heartbreaking, with tenderly horrific, a deep touch of both violent and vulnerable life, as Chalamet’s works often do, carved out a new genre of man.
Journalist Giles Hattersley occasionally spots a flash of kindly exhaustion in Chalamet’s: His manners are almost comically superb and an antenna attuned to the energy of absolutely everyone around him at all times is a terrific resource for an actor--- the October interview consumes quite some paragraphs on how the New York hostess’ or first narrator’s gazes locking on Timothée --- while fails to bring out more lifestyle facts or film industry perspectives from this ‘boyfriend of entire generation.’
Indeed Timothée Chalamet is no doubt a Nepo baby. Growing up in an artistic family, he is the brother of actress Pauline Chalamet, the nephew of director Rodman Flender, the grandson of screenwriter Harold Flender; though received the rejection calls from The Theory of Everything in 2014, The Neon Demon and Manchester by the Sea in 2016, still, Chalamet scored the deals with Wes Anderson for THE FRENCH DISPATCH, Denis Villeneuve in DUNE and Adam McKay at DON’T LOOK UP, as his agent mentions, that ‘Chalamet excludes the need to go on any audition past 7 years’ for which, there shall be much to overture and debate, despite of Chalamet is undoubtedly a talented lucky bewitch, from the perspectives of cultural discussion and film industry analysis, rather than a bare and pale description onto his appearance or a mere ‘husband or father material’ paparazzi topic cliché. Nepotism babies wining at every walk of life, from Roman Empire to modern Hollywood, from academic professor to Swiss Guard, the most intriguing discussion could possibly lead to, is Chalamet’s personal working secrets toward to the awards winning with his notions about entitled tradition. As to achieve uphill to the professional interview satisfaction, apparently that VOGUE UK may still take a long way to marathon.
Timothée adores fashion and jewelry, graces CARTIER as an ambassador and wowa the crowds with floral Alexander McQueen, knitted Vivienne Westwood and glittering Louis Vuitton on red carpets. For his taste on the impeccable styling ideas, Timotheée has surpassed beyond his family traditions or under social influences, he pocesses a sense of wisdom beneath this young heart but yet old soul. As for his points of view on being British Vogue’s first solo man cover star? “It felt right to not make it too statement-y,” neither attempts to overthink it or overstep, Timothée simply wants to enjoy the performances, to live within the fashion, to love the shooting process and incorporate women’s wear and liken collaborating with several fashion photographers, includes VOGUE UK October issue STEVEN MEISEL.
As for my own flat lay photography to the adoration of this rising star, I adopt the snowflake deco bulbs to highlight the cover boy, and select LABORATOIRES FILORGA Paris 15 ml Night Mask & Wrinkle Cream, the 7 ml correction cream & ultra-lifting serum and 4 ml eye contour creams in order to indicate my souvenir hunt from September Paris Fashion Week trip. By handpicking CHANEL camellia to cover the magazine price tag, and indeed CHANEL AW22 Amour earrings and silver pedants to fulfill the bluish and white colour tones of October issue. For more of the French touch, I unbox CHRISTIAN DIOR 20g mini candle Thé Osmanthus, its warm fruity fresh yellow allows me to set the perfect focal point to contrast the pastel pink daisy and greyish green eyes of Timothée Chalamet.
