Club Chalamet Got into a Fight At Paris Fashion Week

I was mid-conversation at the CALLA brand dinner when my phone started going off. By the time the couscous arrived I was breathlessly narrating the whole thing live to my tablemates.

Outside the Hôtel Le Meurice, in the brutal afternoon heat, a woman’s backpack had been grabbed hard enough to nearly knock her over, someone had tried to rip a medical-grade SPF mask off her face, and a voice was screaming ‘I know who you are, bitch’ at her in front of a crowd that had gathered to watch Connor Storrie walk into Saint Laurent’s front row beside Madonna. Connor, who had sparked a fierce bidding war among the houses before YSL won, was one of the week’s most anticipated front-row arrivals. The woman being screamed at was Simone Cromer. Online she’s better known as Club Chalamet. I would know, she’s had me blocked on Twitter for a while now.

Cromer’s account, posted afterward under her Storrie-focused handle, is detailed. She’d spent the first half of the day at Giverny, touring Monet’s garden and lily pond, before heading to the Meurice and standing in direct sun for over two hours. She was dressed for it, cap, sunglasses, and a dermatologist-recommended SPF facial mask that made her look, in her own words, like a mummy. Another fan in the crowd had been clocking her from the start, staring, pointing her out to companions who smirked, then crossing to the other side of the line to loop in still more people. Cromer stayed put. When hotel security adjusted the barriers, pushing the other fan’s section back and giving Cromer’s a cleaner view, she could feel it hadn’t helped.

Around 5:10, as the crowd surged forward when Storrie appeared, the person grabbed her backpack hard enough that Cromer nearly lost her footing. She turned to find them glaring and hissing: “I know who you are. I know who you are, bitch. You bitch.” Then they went for the SPF mask. Cromer pushed their hand away, told them not to touch her again, snapped photos of them , describing one as their “Manson family recruitment photo” , and got a word in of her own. The C word to be exact. The individual responded by loudly calling her a stalker to anyone within earshot. Other people nearby told them to calm down.

After Storrie got into the car with James, his stylist, Cromer says the situation escalated further. “The crazy stood right in front of me and had a defensive stand in such a way that she deliberately blocked me,” she wrote. As the crowd pressed forward for photos and video, she was pushed up against them. “She went feral and pushed back at me and we had an embarrassing brief scuffle. It was humiliating. All I wanted to do was leave after standing there for over two hours and being gawked at, assaulted, verbally harassed, and her trying to remove my mask.”

The other person posted their own version earlier that day — “just had a fight with clubchalamet” — framing it as something they’d started, apparently on the grounds that Cromer’s presence was itself a threat to Storrie. No video has surfaced and neither Storrie nor hotel security has commented. I have reached out to Cromer for comment and have not yet received a response.

To understand why this exploded the way it did you have to know who Cromer is. She created the Club Chalamet Twitter account in 2018, following Chalamet’s breakout role in Call Me by Your Name, and has spoken out against judgment for being an older fan, being 29 years his senior. Her nearly full-time passion for the young actor provoked intrigue from internet users who were surprised to see a professional woman in her 50s so vehemently stan a rising actor. Her penchant for flowery language, general seriousness, and fluency with clap backs made her a continual character in the collective feed. She built a following that treated her posts as essential reading and ran the account with the energy, as one writer put it, of a professional publicist with a single client.

Then Kylie Jenner entered the picture. In a 52-minute Twitter Spaces session, Cromer suggested that Chalamet had been blackmailed into the relationship, a session that became prominent for her observation that the couple had never been seen visiting Olive Garden, despite Chalamet liking Italian cuisine. She referred to Jenner in posts not by name but as “a guest” or “Ms. K,” and described Jenner as “spiritually low IQ” — someone who didn’t mesh with the prestige class Chalamet brought to the table. Cromer later claimed the negative backlash was orchestrated by Jenner’s family, the Kardashians. When Vanity Fair posted a photo of the couple and captioned it “Club Chalamet, our heart goes out to you,” she responded: “Hey, @VanityFair, I’m fine, I’m always here for Timothée. Always!”

The cooling came gradually. Cromer had been losing faith in part due to Chalamet’s continued relationship with Jenner, and seemingly because of his increasingly boastful behavior, most notably when he claimed “no one cares” about ballet or opera. She later wrote that she “felt seen” by a post that read: “defending a person and then experiencing why nobody likes them is very humbling.” She announced she was taking a step back from the account, writing: “Once I don’t fully believe in it anymore, I have to recenter my focus on things I believe in and that make me happy.”

That recenter landed on Connor Storrie. His existing fanbase received her with predictable wariness, some actively suspicious of the baggage she carried, others treating it as an inevitable collision of overlapping online orbits. It’s telling, some noted, that the pivot happened as rumors swirled about a Chalamet-Jenner engagement, and that her Chalamet activity had itself coincided with the marriage of her previous obsession, Michael Fassbender.

I reached out to @mikadontyoudare, the fan on the other side of the confrontation, and their account reframes the whole thing. They’d been there since early morning and had a first-line spot they’d earned by staying all day. They knew who Cromer was before she arrived. “We all knew who she was,” they told me. “She’s well known in fan spaces, especially because she’s a danger and a security risk to the celebrities she targets.” Cromer had allegedly been targeting Connor for weeks by then “making weird tweets about his personal life and friendships, making up stuff she couldn’t possibly know for sure” and the fandom had been bracing for her to show up in person. “There weren’t many 60-year-old women there in the first place so she kind of stood out. We’d been expecting she might show up at some point.”

While everyone else had dressed up hoping for a selfie, Cromer had arrived in a mask, hat, and full-length clothing in a heatwave. “That’s enough to stand out like a sore thumb anyway,” @mikadontyoudare said.

Security also allegedly already knew who Cromer was, and @mikadontyoudare says that was its own kind of relief. They were standing directly in front of her when Connor came out.

The day had been brutal. Hours in direct sun, a crowd getting more restless by the minute. “We’d all been on edge the whole day, it was hot,” @mikadontyoudare told me. Then Connor came out and the energy shifted immediately. “Connor had just come out looking good, it was a frenzy.” That’s when Cromer allegedly ran at him — not walked, ran, cutting directly through the crowd toward him as he was leaving the hotel. Nobody does that. “Something in my head panicked,” @mikadontyoudare told me. “Oh, she’s gonna do something now. She had been doing nothing all day, but maybe she had been biding her time and now was her moment.” Their body moved before they could think. They grabbed Cromer to stop her, got in front of her, and security reached them fast. It was over in seconds.

Afterward, fan accounts tagged @mikadontyoudare thanking them for intervening. It’s also worth noting that Cromer referred to @mikadontyoudare as “she” throughout her account. They use they/them pronouns.

Cromer has since posted: “Do not pity me. My age is not an issue, I’m not a wilting flower, and I know how to defend myself. I wasn’t hurt so I didn’t file a police report. I’m posting this for public record in the fandom. Karma works better that way.”

The internet, predictably, is divided. One camp is hailing @mikadontyoudare a hero for intervening. The other is pointing out that physically grabbing someone for whatever your reasons, is not the same as protecting a celebrity.

Nobody is going to accuse me of being a Club Chalamet sympathizer BUT the irony of the whole scene is still hard to ignore: every single person standing outside the Meurice that afternoon, staking out a spot in the heat for hours to catch thirty seconds of a movie star, was doing some version of exactly what Cromer has spent years being criticized for. The person who grabbed her had also been standing there all day. The difference, according to @mikadontyoudare, is that they weren’t planning to run.