It's on the runways, celebs are sporting it, and even mag editors like Ariel Foxman are all about it. The look, says the New York Times, is beards. And while Eric Wilson tries to look for deeper meaning, he eventually shoots down any attempt to explain the psychology behind these "bushy" chins.

This one from top Tuleh designer Bryan Bradley, however, is not too scruffy.

"This is some sort of reaction to men who look scrubbed, shaved, plucked and waxed," said the designer Bryan Bradley, who stepped onto the runway after his Tuleh presentation looking like a renegade from the John Bartlett show, at which more than half the models wore beards: untidy ones that scaled a spectrum from wiry to ratty to shabby to fully bushy.

"It's less 'little boy,' " Mr. Bradley said. "For a while men have looked too much like Boy Scouts going off to day camp."

Ah, yes. Pedophilia is in the eye of the beholder. Actually, what's more shocking, is that for the first time in weeks, Thursday Styles didn't chalk up a trend to Brokeback Mountain.

Paul Bunyan, Modern-Day Sex Symbol [Eric Wilson, New York Times]