Timothée Chalamet keeps us guessing. Think he’s just a singularly gifted actor? Nope—he’s a fashion maven as well, hands down one of the most interesting and experimental dressers on the planet. And while he’s long been vocal about his Knicks fandom, we were shocked to see him go full Ball Knower during a recent press stop on ESPN’s College GameDay. But it was a curveball of an accessory that Timmy carried with him to this week’s Hollywood premiere of A Complete Unknown that truly solidified the fact that we may never have this guy all the way figured out.
Chalamet’s premiere look on its own met the moment well. The actor paired a simple gray dress shirt with black trousers, boots, and a leather blazer adorned with pins and a pair of shades emblazoned with Bob Dylan’s name. A great fit, sure. We’ve come to expect that from him. What nobody could have predicted is what Chalamet was keeping in his pocket, which was 2024’s hottest new accessory: a Beyblade???
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For the uninitiated, Beyblades are a line of battling spin tops that rose to stratospheric popularity in the early 2000s thanks to an accompanying Saturday morning anime. The toys have remained hot since then, even having professional leagues launch around them. Seeing them in the hands of middle schoolers and Beyblade lifers who got hooked when the game first launched is plenty common. Seeing one on the red carpet for a movie sure to contend for Oscars? That’s a rarity.
What really made the moment was how nonchalant Chalamet was about the accessory. He didn’t go full Noah Lyles and pose with it the way the Olympic sprinter did with a Yu-Gi-Oh! duel disk. He just casually reached into the jacket of that dope leather blazer and removed it, flashing just enough of the top (which fans have identified as a Tusk Mammoth) to make sure the real heads would know what they were seeing. It felt akin to the now-customary watch flash to show off a choice Cartier Tank Louis or Rolex Daytona.
It’s not the first time Chalamet has flexed some early-aughts-anime-gaming bonafides, having posted pictures of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards to his Instagram stories before. He’s also no stranger to tiny accessories—he carried an Eiffel Tower keychain to accompany his killer pink suit at the Paris premiere of Little Women back in 2019. Maybe it’s all a bit. Maybe the actor is just really about letting it rip. We may never know for sure—and that seems to be just how Chalamet likes it.
