Hollywood Style Icons: Jacob Elordi vs Timothée Chalamet

There's a moment on Jimmy Kimmel earlier this year where Jacob Elordi shows up wearing a small gold signet ring on his pinky. Nothing flashy. You'd miss it if you weren't looking.

Margot Robbie had given it to him, a bespoke piece from Cece Jewellery tied to their film together, engraved with a line from Emily Brontë. He wore it like it was just a ring.

Compare that to Timothée Chalamet walking into the Golden Globes in January with a Cartier diamond bracelet, a diamond eternity band, and the same Panthère necklace he'd already worn to two other events that season. Nothing about it was subtle, and it wasn't supposed to be.

Same industry, same red carpets, same general idea of "menswear jewelry matters now." Completely different answers to what that jewelry should do. And neither guy seems remotely bothered by what the other one is doing.

Elordi Doesn't Want You to Notice

That's the trick of Elordi's whole style, not just the jewelry. A thin chain bracelet. A pinky ring.

He mixes gold and silver without any apparent concern about whether that's "allowed," because the rules that would make that a problem only exist if you're trying to look expensive. He's not.

Even his one real fashion swing this year, a black leather tie from Bottega Veneta at the Critics Choice Awards, paired with tiny gold hoops, read as offbeat rather than loud. It got attention because it was unexpected, not because it was dripping in diamonds.

And he sticks with things. The same TAG Heuer Monaco often enough that it barely registers as a styling choice anymore. It's just what's on his wrist.

The Cece ring works the same way. He didn't buy it to be photographed in it. Robbie gave it to him, he liked it, and he kept wearing it.

Chalamet Wants You to Remember

Chalamet is playing an entirely different game, and it's worth saying clearly: it's not the "try-hard" version of Elordi's approach. It's its own thing, done with real intention.

He's a Cartier ambassador, and he treats every major event like a chance to build on that relationship rather than start fresh. The Panthère necklace from the Golden Globes wasn't new. He'd worn it to the AFI Awards Luncheon and to the Marty Supreme premiere before that

At the Oscars, styled by Taylor McNeill, a full stack of Cartier diamond rings went with a white Givenchy suit. Go back further and you'll find the same instinct: a Cartier necklace tucked under a scarf at one premiere, a 7.88-carat diamond piece at another, matching Panthère rings with Kylie Jenner at the BAFTAs.

It would be easy to read all of that as excess for its own sake. It isn't.

There's a difference between a guy who wears something different and expensive every single time out of insecurity, and a guy who's built a genuine, recognizable relationship with one house's archive. Chalamet is the second kind. You could probably pick his Cartier era out of a lineup of red carpet photos with no other context.

The repetition isn't laziness. It's branding, in the best sense of the word. Wear the same statement piece enough times and it stops being an outfit choice. It becomes yours.

What Each Guy Would Actually Buy

If Elordi were shopping HawsonVIP instead of borrowing from Cartier's archive, he'd land on the fashion jewelry collection for one quiet ring, worn constantly, never swapped out for a new one.

The bracelets collection has the leather and steel pieces that fit the same logic, something you put on once and forget you're wearing, the same way most guys forget their wedding ring is even there after year one.

Chalamet's version looks different. He'd want a piece with a story attached, something from the personalized jewelry collection that he could wear to three events in a row on purpose, building the kind of recognition Cartier's given him.

Not because the piece is louder. Because it's repeated.

Neither Guy Wears Cufflinks, But You Might

Here's where this actually becomes useful instead of just fun to read. Red carpets don't call for cufflinks much, so neither man has a documented cufflink moment worth stealing directly.

But a real event, a wedding, an office gala, a black-tie dinner, absolutely does. The underlying instinct behind each guy's style still applies even without a photo to point to.

Borrowing Elordi's logic means one clean cufflink and stopping there. The classic cufflinks and studs collection is built for exactly that kind of restraint.

Borrowing Chalamet's means picking something with more presence and committing to wearing it again next time, the way he keeps returning to the same Cartier pieces. The luxury cufflinks collection covers that end.

So Which One Are You?

Honestly, most guys are closer to Elordi than they think. You probably already wear the same watch every day and don't think twice about it.

That's the whole philosophy, already in practice, just not framed that way. Nobody calls their old sneakers a "signature piece," but that's essentially what they are.

But if you've got one event a year that actually matters, a wedding, a big anniversary, a night you want photos from, there's a real case for going the Chalamet route just once. Pick a piece. Wear it well.

Wear it again next time the occasion calls for it. That's the part people miss when they try to copy his look for a single night and then never touch the piece again. The whole strategy depends on the second and third wear, not the first.

HawsonVIP has the rings, bracelets, cufflinks, and necklaces either direction actually needs. The only wrong move is buying five pieces and wearing none of them twice.