Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet were out for dinner in New York the other night. They were sneaky filmed by other patrons at the restaurant. I saw it on Twitter on the weekend, very un-Kardashian footage. It’s obvious that this was not the paps, and definitely not intentional on Kylie and Timmy’s part. 

 

It’s the price you pay for going outside. 

 

Those visuals ended up going viral and being shared all over the place. And now various media outlets, including PEOPLE are publishing source quotes about the night. PEOPLE’s source is clearly someone at the restaurant who observed them cuddling and looking very much in love. This particular story doesn’t seem like a Kris Jenner special. 

 

But seeing Kylie and Timmy like this reminded me of Kylie’s interview with British Vogue this past summer and specifically what she said about how she moves around undetected in New York. 

“We’re in a restaurant near her NYC bolthole that she’s asked I keep under wraps as, by fluke (or more likely those Tesla moves), the press doesn’t always cotton on when she’s in town for meetings or to see her boyfriend. “I’ve been walking the High Line,” she says, proudly. A rare treat. By the sound of it, her life in LA, where she lives with her two children, Stormi, six, and two-year-old Aire, can be a little… compoundy: an airtight lock-up of giga-fame. It’s all about a baseball cap, she explains. “There’s an angle that you can do where they can’t see your face, and I wear a mask.” Though she’s careful not to go full DiCaprio. “He has a distinct incognito look that now is not incognito because people know it so well.” One wonders if, having inspired the prevailing, occasionally chagrin-inducing, aesthetic for young women in the 2020s, a simple face covering makes it easy for her to hide amid her scores of imitators? “I haven’t had one person notice me,” she says, delighted by her East Coast sojourns. “I’ve been really able to get around.” 

 

She wasn’t lying. She really has been, for the better part of a year, flying into New York, very discreetly, and spending time there without much attention, if any. She and Timmy were out for dinner this weekend and she wasn’t photographed once by paparazzi. She was papped in LA before the weekend heading to a meeting, and those are the shots I’m attaching to this post, but there are no shots of her at the agencies from her time in New York. Which suggests that Kylie is indeed putting in the effort to keep this relationship as private as possible. Not sure how Kris feels about that but as Maria noted in Celebrity Social Media yesterday, overall it seems like all the Kardashian-Jenners have dialed back their …notoriety. Kendall wasn’t in the Victoria’s Secret show last night. Kim wasn’t at Paris Fashion Week and from what I can remember only showed up at one NYFW event. Most of the pap shots of her over the last two months have been with her kids, on mom duty. This, by their standards, is basically hibernation. Is it a new normal for them? Or are they trying to make people miss them before they come back hard?