
When Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet hard launched their relationship at Beyoncé’s birthday gig in Los Angeles earlier this month, the public was aghast. The internet proclaimed disbelief that the two existed on the same timeline, let alone knew each other. Or, at least, they were at first.
As a video of the pair attending a dinner celebrating Haider Ackermann’s beauty collaboration with Augustinus Bader went viral on TikTok days later, the collective consensus shifted: wait, actually, they do look kind of cute together in their matching, all-black ensembles. Then, by the time they packed on the PDA at the US Open men’s finals earlier this month, the dust had settled on the perceived randomness of it all.