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A Complete Unknown: how charity shop and Etsy finds completed iconic Dylan look
Film’s costume designer explains how a scarf made from a blanket and some custom-made Levi’s formed key part of Timothée Chalamet’s wardrobe
Through Chalamet – who plays him with a winning mix of arrogance and indifference – we see Dylan evolve from scraggly, scruffy young kid, to an aloof mod in Wayfarers in line with his growing fame. Recreating iconic looks – from his Freewheelin’ album cover to the leather jacket and super-skinny jeans he sported on stage at the Newport folk festival in 1965, at the peak of the electric Dylan controversy – we see his fashions change over time. These included workwear, and “an American Pendleton [plaid] shirt, which is impossible to recreate; I wouldn’t want to – it has that hang and that feel.” Plus, says Phillips, actors move differently in older corduroy, hopsack and moleskin, compared with modern fabrics.
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