Timothée Chalamet showed up at the Oscars last night and did his job. He presented an award and sat through the entire show without noticeably falling asleep or screaming at anybody. And yet, because he didn’t wear a suit—the default outfit expected of men heading to the Academy Awards—he still managed to freak some people right the fuck out.
To be fair, Chalamet’s clothes were pretty goofy. He wore a shiny blue zip-up with a popped collar, matching pair of fancy-ish tracksuit pants, and giant ruby-and-diamond brooch topped off with a used-car salesman slop of slicked-back hair. The outfit was unusual enough that it managed to captivate the internet, which is currently trying out different descriptions of its effect. None of them are quite as accurate as a summary tweeted by John Manuel Arias, who dubbed it “gas station Dracula.”
Still, others attempted to name the look in different ways, describing it as everything from “trust fund kid showing up to his parents’ funeral” and “Ford V Ferrari cosplay” to the simpler observation that it looks like he’s wearing fancy pajamas or a janitor’s uniform.