Timothée Chalamet arrives in an electric bike and Hawaiian shirt on the red carpet of A Perfect Stranger

Clearly, Timothée Chalamet does not lack inspiration. At the beginning of December in New York, the actor set the Internet on fire by aping line for line Bob Dylan, the folk star he plays in A complete strangerthe film by James Mangold which is released in cinemas in France on January 29. A few hours earlier, he was still talking about him, during the Californian premiere of the biopic, by wearing pins bearing the image of the rock-folk singer. More than a month later, Timothée Chalamet is back to play tricks… and pay yet another hidden tribute to Bob Dylan.

Visiting London on Tuesday January 14, the star with the now mustache – which looks like “eyelashes”, as actress Nikki Glaser humorously described it during the Golden Globes – arrived at the premiere of 'A complete stranger by Lime bike. The American electric bicycle firm, recognizable by its emblematic green, has indeed benefited, thanks to the Franco-American, from an unprecedented promotional boost, possibly without spending a euro.

From the streets of London to the photocall at the BFI Southbank cinema, Timothée Chalamet and his green “e-bike” made the rounds on social networks and the main specialist media. “Timmy cycling in London”, could we read under the multiple videos which show him pedaling while listening to “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas. If the Instagram account of Vogue American saw it as an ultimate reference to the musician and filmmaker David Byrne, who arrived by bicycle on the red carpet of the Met Gala in 2023, others emphasized on the contrary that this happening was a reference to a specific moment in Bob Dylan's career.

For the American fashion monthly WTimothée Chalamet is said to have used an electric bike to wink at Bob Dylan's concert at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, the year the 2016 Nobel Prize winner in literature swapped his acoustic guitar for an electric guitar. A moment in the singer's career documented in James Mangold's film and “welcomed [à l’époque] by the boos of the public and the ire of the folk community”, recalls the journalist from W which also specifies that James Mangold was inspired by Elijah Wald's book on Bob Dylan with the evocative title of Dylan Goes Electric ! (published in 2015).

Timmy on a bike… but as Martine Rose

This new subtle tribute to Bob Dylan did not, however, prevent Timothée Chalamet from shining as he should on the red carpet. This close friend of designers from all over the world has decided this time to promote a very local designer, the British Martine Rose, whom he already wears frequently in everyday life. For more than twenty years, the woman who has reinvented men's fashion with her eponymous brand (she started in London in 2007) has offered an eclectic wardrobe at the crossroads between underground, music and popular culture from different districts of London.