“All I can do is be me, whoever that’s,” mentioned the ever-enigmatic Bob Dylan again in 1965, the yr that will grow to be cemented in Dylan-lore because the one by which he went electrical. So he’s maybe elevating an eyebrow at elfin Timothée Chalamet additionally taking a punt at turning into the elusive rock god, for brand spanking new biopic A Full Unknown.
Chalamet – identified for his Tim Burton-esque physicality and as a darling of the extra experimental realms of trend – was photographed dressed as Dylan on set in a getup which displays the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s early interval – all love-worn jackets, raggedy scarf, denim denims and rustic American workwear, a primary glimpse of his transformation into essentially the most elusive American singer-songwriter of all of them.
Timothée Chalamet on the set of the Bob Dylan biopic in New York Metropolis.Credit score: Media Mode
It’s one of many signature seems that costume designer Arianne Phillips – the Oscar nominee who created the defining fashion of Tom Ford’s A Single Man and Madonna’s ’90s and early ’00s picture making – goes to need to get proper to satisfy the exacting eye of the Bobcats, his impassioned fan base. However how one can get his wardrobe proper?
“When Dylan arrived into New York within the winter of 1961, his fashion was as a lot a assemble as his new identify and backstory: part-roustabout, part-Beatnik,” says Invoice Prince, editor-in-chief of Wallpaper journal (and music fanatic extraordinaire).
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“The Dutch cap, workshirt, stove-legged jeans and hard-travelled boots have been a chunk of New York’s folksy demimonde, then in thrall to the likes of Woody Guthrie and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. However, it didn’t survive first contact with the bohemian ensembles of The Beatles, after which Dylan adopted the black leather-based, skinny denims and Chelsea boots of his Liverpudlian oppos.”
Very like his seismic segue from people to electrical guitar, Dylan’s fashion swerved from genuine chore jackets and moderately extra downplayed ensembles to one thing sharper and extra deliberate (solely the tangled mop of hair remained). By the late ’60s, his picture was broodingly atmospheric; the black jackets – both army or leather-based, alongside lean-as-you-like denims, Cuban-heeled boots and maybe a trailing scarf.
Dylan strolling with Suze Rotolo in September 1961 (proper); Dylan in 1964.Credit score: Getty
It was part-Beatnik and in addition redolent of what was occurring with the left-of-centre musicians in Europe; it’s a really Left Financial institution look, as typified by Serge Gainsbourg. The fashion has usually been mined on the menswear catwalks by labels together with Celine, Saint Laurent and John Varvatos.
