With an astute bit of trend-spotting, New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog chronicles the mustache’s recent crossover from fashionable facial hair faux-pas to mainstream viability and official acceptance (via a ground-testing period in hipster ugly-coolness).

Admittedly, Brad Pitt’s recent ’stache reveal (number three on Daily Intel’s slideshow) was predicted by Orlando Bloom’s (pictured at right), spotted over a year ago by that sarcastic forum for hipster ridicule, LOLHipsters.

Despite conflicting claims to being first on the scene, Daily Intel’s New York-centric top 10 slideshow highlights out some stellar ’staches. Among them:

New York Knicks Coach Mike D’Antoni

Former Deputy Attorney General and Obama Adviser Eric Holder

Citigroup’s number one investor Alwaleed bin Talal

New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman

Somehow, in all the ’stache celebration, we lost sight of another big name bushy lip sporter, Sean Penn:

Who else is missing from this list of mainstream mustaches, err, “mainstaches”?