Woody Allen
Picture a writer and it’s Woody Allen you’ll see. Allen’s low-key tastes have barely changed over the years. He has mastered an unassuming mix of tweed and corduroy, and maybe a slight variation here and there on those horn-rimmed glasses that might as well have been glued to his face in the 1970s. Call it nerd chic, the slightly disheveled, East Coast–intellectual style that current tastemakers like Wes Anderson have adopted so skillfully. Allen proved that you don’t have to doll yourself up like Cary Grant to be a sex symbol—you just have to wear it well.
• Don’t try to be someone you’re not. Allen has spent a lifetime embracing his oddness, and women have spent a lifetime embracing him.
