The look was custom-made by Doni Nahmias, whose sporty namesake brand is a favorite among NBA pros and Hollywood’s men about town, including Justin Bieber. But thanks to a linkup via their respective partners, the designer has become known especially as one of Chalamet’s go-to fashion collaborators.
Nahmias and Chalamet first connected the same way that many adult straight men do: “We met because our girlfriends are friends,” said Nahmias, whose girlfriend, Victoria Villarroel, is Jenner’s pal and former assistant. Before long, the guys discovered their shared love of fashion and basketball; now, they play pickup games together. “He’s a hooper,” the designer confirmed.
Last year, Nahmias produced a simple, on-theme hoodie for Chalamet to wear as he embarked on an international press tour to promote the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. The actor wore the sweatshirt—a black hoodie with the film’s title printed plainly in white, all-lowercase, sans-serif typeface—at an early promo stop at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (where Dylan himself attended for one semester in 1959), and again, notably, during his appearance on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast last December. When it seemed like enough fans wanted an A Complete Unknown hoodie of their own, the duo put out a limited run of 100 hoodies priced at $195 each, which, according to Nahmias, “sold out in seconds” in January.
“The collaboration with Doni came about naturally,” Chalamet told Vogue then. “It began with an appreciation for the comfort of his hoodies, and evolved into a friendship over the past year.”