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BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Weeping over the economy? Take heart: Kleenex is launching what it's calling its best tissue ever, with its biggest technological improvement in 40 years.

As the economy further wilts and the demand for digital experience burgeons, Madison Avenue's talent scouts are shifting gears to fulfill agency demands.

(TrendHunter.com) Luis Antonio Aguero Torregosa from La Habana, Cuba is known in his hometown as the Piercing King because he has over 300 cosmetic holes in his face and countless other piercings all over his body.

As…

Financial services companies spend a lot of money getting their “get rich with us” message out. In fact, it’s one of the largest industries served by Madison Avenue. All of which makes launching a new ad campaign in this tricky market a sleep depriving experience.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Oppenheimer Funds is kicking off a $20 million ad effort tomorrow, but last week’s fright caused the firm to scrap two of their new ads.

The two ads that are being pushed back for now are a spot that promotes retirement and another that is largely about asset allocation and balancing risk and reward. Those two ads are “more about taking proactive steps to adjust a portfolio and make an investment decision, and I think at this point we need to wait a few weeks,” says Bruce Dunbar, director of corporate communications at Oppenheimer. Right now, Mr. Dunbar says, “people will be thinking about how they are going to readjust in the short term, versus thinking about long term.”

(TrendHunter.com) Up-and-coming fashion designer Mark Fast describes his style as ‘gothic elegance.’ His collection for Spring/Summer 2009, shown at London Fashion Week and in this video, has been a hit with front-row viewers…

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter has featured some pretty awesome inventions for music lovers, and now we want to teach you how to party in style. What’s a bash without music? It’s pretty dull, that’s what it is, because…

The Virgin group does it again with this clever animated ad starring Mel B. from the Spice girls. The ad is entertaining and does the job promoting Virgin’s Movies on Demand launch. It’s amusing and direct…

(TrendHunter.com) A ring symbolizes tradition, friendship, fashion and marriage. With Jonathan Ben-Tovim’s creation, rings can also be used as means of communication–so long as the message is 64 characters long and the…

(TrendHunter.com) If I ever had to give up my title of Supreme Commander, I would want to be known as King of the Coin Bras. JJ Valaya currently holds the title as recognized by me.

Check out these fashions from the…

(TrendHunter.com) New Zealand Fashion Week kicked off in Auckland yesterday with quite a bit of sparkle and dazzle.

A highlight of the event was this sparkly outfit adorned with thousands of hand-sewn Swarovski crystals…