Personal Trading Cards – Photo & Stats Business Cards

(TrendHunter.com) Trading cards have always had a strong following in professional sports leagues. Animated TV shows and collectible card game companies have long since produced trading cards as well. Considering the success of all those, how about applying the same concept in the white-collar business world?

People…

Awareness Through Fashionable Celebs – Tommy Hilfiger, Aly & Aj for MS (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tommy Hilfiger and teen pop duo Aly & Aj have teamed up with the Nancy Davis Foundation for MS to promote MS Awareness Month in May.

Aly & Aj model vibrant orange We ♥ to Erase MS T-Shirts, exclusively designed by Tommy Hilfiger for the cause.

Hilfiger also designed a Orange Wallet/Very Necessa…

Haute Celebrity Fashion – Herve Ledger Bandage Dress (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Herve Ledger, by Max Azaria, bandage dresses are the “it” fashion garment of the season, the rich and famous are going crazy for it. These bandage dresses hug the bodies of Lindsay Lohan, Victoria Beckham, Gisele Bundchen and Mariah Carey, just to name a very few.

Their ultra-sophisticated cut…

Leaked Songs – Fergie’s ‘Labels or Love’ is The Latest Victim (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) More frequently than ever before, superstar artists are finding their videos leaked to YouTube. Although the record labels attempt to control the piracy, it is usually quite easy to find new versions of hit songs.

The latest victim is Fergie. Labels or Love, the new song by Fergie has been leaked…

Celebrity Lingerie Models – Scary Spice for Ultimo Lingerie (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Ultimo Lingerie of England has hired Melanie (Scary Spice) Brown as the face and body of their new lingerie line and the first promo photos have been released.

The pictures shot in a Los Angeles mansion, show Melanie in a daring photo shoot above the LA skyline in an array of sexy two-piece items …

Celebrity Swimwear Lines – Liz Hurley’s Bikini Range for Mango (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Being 42 years old never looked this good! Actress, model, and businesswoman Liz Hurley looks stunning in a yacht-set shoot to launch a series of her own swimwear designs for the High Street store Mango.

Granted that there must have been a great amount of air-brushing involved, Hurley pulls off a s…

Extreme Stunt YouTube Ads – Kobe Bryant Jumps Over Aston Martin for Nike (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Los Angeles Lakers superstar shooting guard Kobe Bryant did a YouTube ad for Nike where, in an act of macho bravado, he jumps over an Aston Martin car coming straight at him at 50 miles per hour. Nicely executed stunt if in fact the maneuver was real.

Before the end of the commercial, Kobe, in a P…

Co-Branded MP3 Basketball Sneakers – Zune Reebok Answer XI

(TrendHunter.com) Reebok and Microsoft Zune have collaborated to create a limited edition sneaker and Zune MP3 player featuring Denver Nuggets superstar shooting guard Allen Iverson. An etching of the superstar will appear on the back of a limited-edition 8GB Zune packaged with a pair of Reebok shoes called the “Zune…

Creative Concert Contests – Write a Poem to See Madonna Live

(TrendHunter.com) VH1 is giving away two tickets to see Madonna perform live at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. The mega pop diva is scheduled to perform at the historic catering hall/music/dance venue on April 30th in celebration of the April 29th release of her CD “Hard Candy”.

But here is the catch.

Yo…

$24,000 Movie Tours – The Sex and the City Fantasy Tour (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Destination on Location , a high-end travel company, is offering a Sex and the City Tour. Only a handful of women at a time get to visit the haunts and stomping ground of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte, perhaps American TV’s most famous single women.

The first stop is SoHo House which i…

Jelly Bean Art 2 – Madonna Hard Candy Cover (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) At a promotional party in the UK for Madonna’s new album, Hard Candy, there was a lot of themed merchandise and decor including these jelly bean portraits.

The art was creative out of real candies, which was very suitable considering the album’s name. The colours were perfectly chosen to reflect t…

Commercializing Religion – The Pope is for Sale (and His Bobble Head) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) “The pope is for sale,” ntoes the New York Daily News. Pope Benedict XVI’s imminent visit to the United States has unleashed a totally expected wave of commercialism. The article notes, “Memorabilia on sale at the (St Patrick’s Cathedral) Fifth Ave. house of worship ranges from a $4 Pope Benedict bo…

Big Buck Pop Art – Banksy’s Kate Moss Sells for $150,000

(TrendHunter.com) These prints by the suddenly-ubiquitous graffiti artist Banksy, recently sold for £96,000(about $152,000) at the Bonham’s Urban Art auction. The painting is the artist’s take on Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe. Only instead of Monroe’s image, Banksy has used Kate Moss. Luxist notes, “In terms of p…

Celebrity Jewelry – Madonna’s Hard Candy Bling (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) They don’t call Madonna the Material Girl for nothing. The celebrated pop diva has teamed up with Chopard the luxury watch, jewelry, and accessories company once gain (they worked together previously to create some bling bling for Madonna’s next to last album and subsequent tour) to create some more…

Spoof Celeb Obituaries – Britney, Amy, Whitney, Courtney, Mary-Kate

(TrendHunter.com) I’m usually kind of cynical when it comes to celebrities and the circus atmosphere surrounding them. Some will say that I’m usually kind of cynical. Period. But I digress. Thing is that I read this article in the April 2008 issue of Glamour Magazine yesterday that really bummed me out a little bit. …

Celebrity Charity Events – Kelly Clarkson Stamps for Idol Gives Back (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Kelly Clarkson performed for charity in the Idol Gives Back Foundation show. The event, which aired yesterday, seeked to raise awareness and funds to benefit six charities:The Children’s Defense Fund, The Global Fund, Make It Right, Malaria No More, Save The Children, U.S. Programs and the Children’…

Bearded Children – Ice Station Antarctica Ads

(TrendHunter.com) This ad is clever, in a creepy sort of way. Seeing kids sporting full-blown beards is disconcerting to say the least. The images are part of a campaign that has recently been launched to promote the new Ice Station Antarctica experience at London’s Natural History Museum.

“The family friendly exh…

Historical Lollipops – Head Pops (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve tried to get your kids interested in history, but can’t get them excited about it, then surely you haven’t tried these historical lollipops called Head Pops.

I think they rock, as they look pretty great and are a lot more effective than some of the uber-crappy “shaped” lollipops where you…

Retro Reshoots 2 – Jessica Simpson as Virna Lisi on Esquire Mag

(TrendHunter.com) Esquire Magazine May front cover has been leaked and it is making the rounds on the internet. The cover has Jessica Simpson shaving off what I assume is an imaginary beard. The stunt was inspired by a similar Esquire cover in 1964 featuring Italian actress Virna Lisi. The magazine is celebrating its…

Medicinal Marijuana Ads – The Tom Cruise Purple

(TrendHunter.com) A strain of marijuana in California has been baptized as the “Tom Cruise Purple” and is promoted with a label showing a picture of the actor laughing like a crazy person; Cruise and his reps are not exactly elated about this. The weed in question can be found in clubs where marijuana is used legal…