LONDON — Timothée Chalamet rolled elegantly into the London premiere of “A Full Unknown” on a rented Lime bike, taking everybody unexpectedly, together with the designer who dressed him.
“I used to be very impressed — I wouldn’t have been so regular biking onto the purple carpet,” stated Martine Rose, who made the slim go well with based mostly on her “Bowie” silhouette.
For the premiere on the BFI Southbank, Chalamet paired the jacket, with its brief, slim lapels, with a silky shirt from Rose’s spring 2025 assortment in blue, black and inexperienced.
The shirt was a nod to Bob Dylan’s London go to in 1965 with American folks musician Joan Baez. The pair have been photographed within the gardens of the Savoy Resort on the time.
He even wore Martine Rose mules, which the designer stated was a “high-risk technique” given his mode of transport.
Chalamet’s on-screen outfits are additionally garnering their share of consideration, with costume designer Arianne Phillips incomes her third BAFTA nomination for Finest Costume Design.
The award ceremony will happen on Feb. 16 on the Royal Competition Corridor.
The biopic follows Bob Dylan’s origins and ambitions, and discovering his method in New York Metropolis within the early ‘60s.
Phillips created a display persona for the famously enigmatic singer-songwriter by shining a lightweight on his passions, dressing Chalamet in motorbike jackets, skinny fits impressed by Dylan’s time with The Beatles and darkish sun shades to hide his shyness.
She additionally paid shut consideration to paint, dressing Dylan in suede jackets that grew to become progressively darker in coloration as he rose to fame, and have become extra mysterious within the heady years of the American Civil Rights Motion, the anti-Vietnam motion and the precursor to the Summer season of Love.
Phillips started her Dylan research in 2019, studying “Dylan Goes Electrical!” by Elijah Wald, on which the movie relies. She additionally hung out with Suze Rotolo’s memoir “A Freewheelin’ Time,” and hours listening to varied audiobooks.
The venture led to a collaboration with Levi’s, which has been a staple of Dylan’s signature rock star look for the reason that ‘60s.
The Levi’s group and Phillips, an Academy Award-nominated costume designer, labored on a pair of 1955 501 denims with boot-cut insert, a D belt and a suede jacket.