In the early \u201990s, Paul Thomas Anderson left New York University after two days in film school. Shortly thereafter, he made Cigarettes & Coffee, a short film he funded using gambling winnings, charges made to Anderson\u2019s then-girlfriend\u2019s credit card, and $10,000 his father had put into a college fund. (Interestingly, the plot follows a $20 bill.) The film was accepted into the Sundance Film Festival\u2019s Shorts Program, and plans to make it into a feature-length film were greenlit the following year.<\/p>\n
Since then, the Los Angeles-bred director has released nine feature-length films, received eleven Academy Award nominations, and collaborated with some of the most recognizable names in Hollywood, including Adam Sandler<\/a>, Julianne Moore, and Daniel Day Lewis<\/a>. He has the relaxed and confident air of a guy writing the cult leader (The Master), porn prodigy (Boogie Nights), and stoner anti-hero (Inherent Vice<\/a>) protagonists he\u2019s always wanted to write.<\/p>\n Style-wise, Anderson stepped onto the scene in the late \u201990s wearing Adidas slides<\/a> and a slightly sleazy, in-your-face look befitting of a precocious emerging director. (His girlfriend at the time, it\u2019s worth noting, was the ultimate indie sweetheart Fiona Apple<\/a>.) As his career flourished, Anderson\u2019s wardrobe shifted away from the gonzo vibes of his youth toward a more practical and toned-down uniform. Think: French director, sans the inconvenienced demeanor. Rumpled button-ups tucked into straight-leg jeans, paired with a leather belt and mountaineer-style shoes. He\u2019s also been known to don a schoolboyish peacoat<\/a> here and there.<\/p>\n Anderson\u2019s hair has had its own parallel journey, although a less linear one. The director\u2019s grooming has oscillated from clean-shaven with a floppy self-cut shag, to bed-headed and rocking what one of my coworkers called a \u201cCivil War beard,\u201d and back again. (With PTA, the pattern seems to be: the crazier the hair, the more esoteric the film.) Recently, Anderson revealed an all-white beard while promoting his latest film, One Battle After Another<\/a>, which lands in theaters today. Given the wackiness of those whiskers, I\u2019m betting it\u2019s going to be a good one.<\/p>\n In honor of Anderson\u2019s tenth movie, we\u2019re taking a look back at his best fits. You\u2019ll find that his best accessory\u2014that signature puckish mien\u2014has remained intact since his first chaotically produced short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the early \u201990s, Paul Thomas Anderson left New York University after two days in film school. Shortly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,108300,88,206,777],"class_list":["post-183735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-look-book","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}