The Mustache Revival: A love letter to the mustache

When US actor Timothée Chalamet showed up at this year’s Golden Globe Awards with a mustache, presenter Nikki Glaser joked that he had a “nice lash line” on his upper lip. Fans also thought: The thing had to go immediately! But with the mustache bullying they are doing him an injustice, as the mustache is one of the most erotic beard looks of all time – especially since Chalamet plays on Team D’Artagnan rather than on the team.

Beards have always emphasized the attractiveness of Hollywood men. Think of Clark-Gable as Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind.” Actually a macho man, but disguised as a gentleman by his mustache, Gable drove the cinema audience crazy at the time. A fine mustache looks elegant and seductive, is masculine and feminine at the same time – after all, it has the shape of the handle of a woman’s handbag.

Much later, the beard added a touch of daring to faces like Johnny Depp’s. Men like Depp and Pitt could be all too beautiful, but if they leave a little disturbing factor between their nose and lip, it’s sexy. Because it reveals calculated negligence.

Let’s come to the Godfather of mustaches: Tom Selleck. In the 1980s, he drove around as private detective Thomas Magnum in a red Ferrari, letting his hair sprout not only over his lips but also out of his Hawaiian shirt. If a guy like him had a full beard, he would have looked like a berserker. Too raw, too masculine. But Selleck made a statement with his bar. After all, a furry caterpillar crawling over an upper lip is cutely harmless.

A beard doesn’t scratch, it tickles. And says: I am your friend. And if you want, I’m more than that. So in the eighties, people all over the world fell for Selleck and his mustache, millions of men copied the look. The result: Children of the eighties and nineties still get daddy vibes when they see a big mustache.

Will the mustache – thanks to footballers like Jackson Irvine – be the new beard trend in 2025? Please yes! Because with it the wearer can radiate a lot, be a seducer, a daredevil, a protector. And you can even make headlines. Last summer, mustache fans were shocked to discover that one could even give sex appeal to a man who one would never have thought possible: Markus Söder.