Letâs just say it here: thank god Timothée Chalamet is at Coachella.
Itâs no secret that America’s biggest music festival has lost its way in the style realm. What was once the motherland of endearingly curated boho-rocker fits has, over the years, slowly devolved into unendearing and deeply contrived ensembles made for #streetstyle.
And just when 2025 looked like it might be another year of fringed leather chaps, lace coordinates, and bad hats, along comes a true festival rat in Timothée Chalamet. The actor could have reached into his rolodex for something from Bottega Veneta or Haider Ackermannâs shiny new Tom Ford. But he did the right thing and dressed for the occasion: an actual festival.
For his traipse around the Indio valley, the 29-year-old wore a pair of baggy shin-length shorts, a vintage Nike tee clearly worn often and well, a vintage trucker cap, a backpack (!!), and sunglasses. The shorts are hard to make out in the photo, but appear to be the same pair of cargoes the Oscar nominee sported with his Warped-Tour-esque coffee-run fit last week. The two most identifiable things on his person are a pair of Dr. Martens âTract Combsâ boots (from a 2018 collab with Atmos) and a gold Cartier bangle.
This is what Coachella style should be. Heâs sun safe, heâs low-key, heâs comfortable, heâs wearing items he knows he can ruin in a moshpit if the need (and the bass drop) calls for itâlikely because these are things heâs had for years. Festival clothes should take a beating. They’re for laying around spilling a $17 margarita served in a Solo cup, for staining and sweating and not giving a shit. They are not for Instagram dumps captioned âChella ð«.â
You might not find this look on Timothée Chalametâs IG. Or, maybe you will, in a blurry candid as he thrashes in the desert to a band he really likes with his friends. As it should be.
This story originally appeared on British GQ.