{"id":336225,"date":"2026-02-14T01:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/336225\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:10:10","slug":"timothee-chalamet-is-leading-the-comme-des-garcons-play-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/336225\/","title":{"rendered":"Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Is Leading the Comme Des Gar\u00e7ons PLAY Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"

If a 2016 revival<\/a> is really and truly upon us, then we must prepare to reevaluate any and all hypebeast-golden-era trends with clear eyes, and, most importantly, full hearts. Especially when those eyes and hearts<\/a> align.<\/p>\n

Last night, actor and lifelong hypebeast<\/a> Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet made moves towards this end as he continued his Oscar campaign with a Q&A panel moderated by his A Complete Unknown<\/a> costar, Elle Fanning, in Los Angeles. For the occasion, he donned a nostalgic garment: a blue-and-white-striped button-up shirt from Comme des Gar\u00e7ons PLAY, the influential Japanese fashion label\u2019s once-ubiquitous, since-maligned diffusion line that first launched in 2002. The sub-brand\u2019s emblem\u2014a little heart with eyes\u2014felt inescapable a decade ago, but is a rare sighting today. Chalamet styled his with light-wash jeans and box-fresh white sneakers\u2014another style seemingly resurrected from the late-2010s trend graveyard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet wearing Comme Des Gar\u00e7ons PLAY in Los Angeles, on Thursday.<\/p>\n

DUTCH\/Bauer-Griffin<\/p>\n

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when high fashion and hype felt indistinguishable<\/a>. Splashy, limited-edition items like a hoodie from the graffiti-inspired GucciGhost collaboration and zip-tied sneakers from Off-White\u2019s partnership with Nike were among the most enviable acquisitions in menswear circles at the time. Around the same time, Comme des Gar\u00e7ons mastermind Rei Kawakubo found a hungry mass audience via PLAY thanks to the sub-label\u2019s cheeky, basics-with-a-twist line, whose relatively accessible price point made it popular among young consumers. The heart-stamped pieces have gotten a bad rap in recent years<\/a>, inspiring eye-rolls among those who\u2019ve \u201cgraduated\u201d from streetwear to more classic fashions.<\/p>\n

But as a lover of anything that disrupts a classic silhouette with a bit of cheek, PLAY\u2019s basics have always felt timeless to me. And, evidently, Chalamet concurs\u2014which makes sense given that he has never been shy about his love of flashy, nostalgic brands.<\/p>\n

In the past three months alone, he has worn head-to-toe Chrome Hearts to a headline-generating effect: once, in a persimmon-colored leather number<\/a> he coordinated with his partner<\/a>, Kylie Jenner, for the Los Angeles premiere of Marty Supreme, and again with a velvety three-piece suit<\/a> and matching Timberland boots, which he wore while he accepted his first Golden Globe for his performance in the said ping-pong epic. But he\u2019s worn all sorts of timestamps over the years, from slim-fitting Adidas joggers befitting a \u201cGallatin student on a hungover bagel run<\/a>,\u201d to his documented True Religion obsession<\/a>, to his Y2K-coded Bapesta dupe<\/a> sneakers. He has also, of course, already worn CDG PLAY\u2019s most notorious grail: the high-top Chuck Taylors from the brand\u2019s hugely popular Converse collaboration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If a 2016 revival is really and truly upon us, then we must prepare to reevaluate any and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,160059,18,117,19,17,327,68001,2614,1715,13805,806],"class_list":{"0":"post-336225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-comme-des-garcons","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-shirts","16":"tag-style","17":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","18":"tag-timothee-chalamet","19":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116066322121832016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}