There was a wonderful tweet back on pre-X Twitter by the cultural critic Jasmine Sanders that read, basically, as follows: when white women dye their hair a certain shade, they’re sending a distress signal not unlike a squid emitting ink. If that insight holds true, as, anecdotally, I’ve observed that it does—brunette is meant to flag “serious,” red means “bombshell,” and bleach-blonde can but does not always mean “crisis”—then what do we make of Timothée Chalamet showing up at the New York premiere of A Complete Unknown with honey-blonde bangs? Witness:
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The advent of a blond Chalamet has been rumored for years, so I was skeptical at first when a Vogue colleague breathlessly informed us of the actor’s newly flaxen locks via Slack. But lo and behold, it’s real. (Even if the bangs are possibly clip-ons? Jury’s out.) Then, his true motives became clear: Chalamet was cosplaying as Bob Dylan at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Method-dressing is, indeed, alive and well, it seems:
