Timothée Chalamet makes history as British Vogue’s first solo male cover star

Timothée Chalamet has a brand new accolade for his CV: first man to look solo on the print cowl of British Vogue in its 106-year-history.

Chalamet, who has lengthy been admired for his type and fashion-forward crimson carpet seems, was photographed for the journal’s October subject. He has worn a harness, a so-called shirtless go well with and, final week on the Venice movie pageant, he wore a backless halterneck high that rapidly went viral.

Talking to Vogue in a video, he describes turning into the primary man to look on the journal’s cowl as “extraordinary. And bizarre. And simply an honour”.

Timothée Chalamet on the duvet of British Vogue’s October subject. Photograph: Steven Meisel

Writing in his editor’s letter, Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful, mentioned the selection of Chalamet was partly his “feverishly adopted trend persona, a method so innate and confident that it conjures up men and women alike. From shimmering genderless suiting to his day by day wardrobe of classic T-shirts and straightforward denim, he doesn’t prefer to label himself whether or not he’s off to a live performance or caught within the glare of a thousand flashbulbs”.

The Vogue shoot, photographed by Steven Meisel, exhibits Chalamet’s willingness to experiment with trend. He wears a pearl choker on the duvet, and different pictures present him in a pink wig, and carrying leather-based trousers.

Timothée Chalamet was praised by British Vogue editor, Edward Enninful, for his ‘innate’ ‘confident’ type. Photograph: Steven Meisel

Whereas the actor is the primary man to look solo on the duvet of British Vogue’s print version, there are precedents within the journal’s historical past. Harry Types was the primary man on the duvet of American Vogue in 2020, whereas – as Twitter has been eager to level out – Types’ former bandmate Zayn Malik was truly the primary man for British Vogue, showing on a digital cowl in 2018.

There have additionally been males accompanying girls on British Vogue’s cowl – starting from Manolo Blahnik with Anjelica Huston in 1974 to a bare-bottomed Robbie Williams with Giselle in 2000 and Marcus Rashford with Adwoa Aboah in 2020. As Enninful writes, actor Helmut Berger was the primary, photographed with Marisa Berenson by David Bailey in 1970.