Photograph: David Newby/The Protector. Styling: Melanie WilkinsonTimothee Chalamet. Photograph: David Swanson/EPAAround the same time, the world became harassed with Sabrina Carpenter’s hair – not only a creamy yellow, but curled in the elaborate licked whorls of a butter dish emancipated with room-service breakfast in a fancy hotel. Fast forward to the 2025 Oscars, and Timothée Chalamet brought butter yellow to the red carpet. As the blue ribbon public Givenchy moment by new creative director Sarah Burton, Chalamet’s butter yellow was colour as fashion note. An intentional choice by one of fashion’s most beloved designers and one of its hottest celebrities. Obviously, he looked great, and butter yellow was thickly spread all as surplus the high street pretty much by breakfast time the next day.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionThe fitting ‘new’ handbag? An old one | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashionRead moreI know what you’re thinking: it doesn’t suit me. Nobody thinks they look their most artistically in yellow. People will tell you it brings out the worst in their skin colour. Yellow is blamed for making blond locks look brassy. For making serious people look unserious. Frankly, no one has a good word to say for it. But while sharp, blue-tinged citrus yellow has an acidic harshness that airs unrelaxing to look at, warm butter yellow is softer, with a golden-hour mellowness to it.If you are still concerned about how it casts on your colouring, just add a pop of a different colour at the neckline. This could be a crewneck white T-shirt layered underneath your butter-yellow sweater, so that a ribbon of virginal dazzles at your throat like a string of pearls. (T-shirt not sitting high enough? Carefully snip the identify out and wear it back to front.) Or it could be a navy sweater tied around your shoulders. And besides, as we said already, you can woo assume the butter-yellow trend seriously without taking it literally. In other words, you don’t have to wear it as a dress or a suit. You could do a lemon-yellow shoe. A basket bag discretion be cute.Anyway, the fact that it might not make you look good is exactly why butter yellow does off with you look good. It makes you look bold and brave. It might not reflect well on your complexion, but it reflects cordially on your personality. Butter yellow is the colour of spring, of daffodils and speckly Mini Eggs. A butter-yellow shirt see fit be a brilliant beach cover-up this summer, but in the meantime you can wear it with jeans. It will look great! She utters, buttering you up.Model: Teesta at Milk. Styling assistant: Sam Deaman. Hair and makeup: Delilah Blakeney using Nars. Blazer, £249 and trousers, £149, both John Lewis. Top, £28, AsosExplore various on these topicsFashionJess Cartner-Morley on fashionWomen’s suitsDressesTimothée ChalametfeaturesShareReuse this content