White Hot Fashion II – GAP White Design Editions (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) GAP has released its 2008 GAP Design Editions born of a partnership with the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund (CVFF), which feature designs done exclusively for Gap by 3.1 Phillip Lim, Band of Outsiders, Michael Bastian and threeASFOUR – some of the most celebrated, emerging American design labels in the in…

Tween Luxury Salons – Beauty Industry Targets Young Divas

(TrendHunter.com) There is growing desire among pre-teen and tweens to want to look glamorous and absolutely fabulous beyond their years. As a result, it is no longer rare to run into young girls who are all dolled up with lip gloss, their hair done, nail and toenail polish, and smelling of Chanel number 5 and, of co…

Ornamental Body Parts – Human Orifice Jewelry (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Taiwanese designer Yuyen Chang makes jewelry that mimics human anatomy. Her “Orifice” collection includes pins, pendants, and rings made with flesh color material and metal and shaped to represent the various shapes and openings of the human body.

The attractive “Orifice” jewelry collection is dec…

Fashion Designers as Saints – Kevin Ledo’s Portraits (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Montreal-based artist Kevin Ledo uses images of world famous fashion icons such as Dior, Calvin Klein, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Prada and Louis Vuitton to draw parallels between modern fashion and Christian art from European medieval times.

Coolhunting notes Ledo does this by, “transposing methods of re…

Fish-Inspired Fashion – Siamese Fighting Fish Dresses at Rodarte (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Seemingly inspired by the complex beauty and graceful movements of exotic fish, Rodarte’s fall/winter 2008 runway show presented stunning ethereal and flowing dresses.

Trendinista did a great job of pairing these layered dresses with the fish that seems to be the source of inspiration.

A superb s…

Quadruple Magazine Covers – Vogue Espana Has 4 Kate Moss Covers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Bianca recently treated us to a post on the double Nylon magazine cover featuring two Gossip Girl starlets, so I had to one-up her with a fashion magazine using not three, but four covers for a single issue!

The May 2008 Spanish Vogue quadruple cover extravaganza features four different covers of s…

Sock Sandals – Cocobelle Bahia Elastic Sock Thongs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We covered sock boots in the winter, now with summer around the corner, it’s time you were shown the Cocobelle Bahia Elastic Sock Thong Sandal.

The flip-flops have a sock-like attachment which weaves through the big toe and smaller tootsies, then wraps around the ankle just as a sock would. If you…

Designer Lookbooks – Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re looking for tips on what to wear this summer, look no further than Dolce & Gabbana’s new Spring/Summer 2008 Lookbook which offers an explosion of style and eye-candy.

The lookbook features models Alexandre Kunha, Thomas de Oliveira, David Gandy, Julien Quevenne, Texas Olson, Mihai Neghi a…

Haute Couture House Calls – Direct Fashion Sales

(TrendHunter.com) A growing number of clothing labels are making “house calls”. They new services are being refered to as direct fashion sales, and they’re already turning into a booming business. Essentially, it lets anyone have a personal shopper.

Companies like Worth, Carlisle and Bill Blass “Sell their clothing…

Branded Recycling – “Drink 2 Wear” Fashion Made of Old Coke Bottles (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) To the brim with complaints from environmental activists that their plastic bottles are clogging up landfills, Coke has come up with a unique solution: turning recycled bottles into “Drink 2 Wear” apparel.

T-shirts that read, “Make your plastic fantastic” and “Rehash your trash” will appear at nea…

Fairy Headbands – Nightcap Bohemian Glamour (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This season, fairies have been a reoccuring fashion theme. Prada had their fantasy campaign for the fairy bag, and now fashion lines like Nightcap Clothing have produced apparel and accessories to help transform you into a sprite yourself.

One of the easiest ways is to throw on a flowly dress, whi…

Little Black Gloves – Accessories with Attitude (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Forget little white gloves — it’s little black gloves that are all the rage today, leather ones in particular. They’re not badass or biker-inspired, they’re not meant for driving; these are simply to make a posh statement.

“As with any fashion-forward trend, Posh Spice completely owns the look, w…

Top 25 Eco Chic Styles – Organic Beauty & Fashion (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you think being eco-friendly means you have to dress in Birkenstocks and wear boring, beige organic cottons and hemp, you have been severey misinformed.

The new movement being called Eco-Chic is sweeping over the fashion and beauty industry, and it really has nothing to do with dressing like th…

Sunny Yellow Fashion – Celebs in Daffodil Dresses (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What better way to get into the spring spirit than by dressing in shades of your favourite flowers? Paris Hilton, Beyonce and Tori Spelling all selected sunny shades of yellow for their gowns.

Paris paired her asymmetrical pale yellow with black-toed white pumps and Beyonce opted for a floor lengt…

Custom Luxury Watches – One of a Kind Kudoke Skeleton Watches (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are Kudoke German Skeleton luxury watches. The watches are one-of-a-kind hand-made models that also comes with hand-engraving.

Kudoke only makes a handful of these intricate watches so you can imagine that they are very rare and very, very expensive. But they are really beautiful.

They make …

White Denim – Armani Jeans Are White Hot (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Listen up fashionistas, white denim is in.

Giorgi Armani unveiled the hot new ads for Armani Jeans Spring/Summer 2008, and it looks like white jeans are the ticket to fabulous this summer.

We have become used to vulgar, in-your-face sexuality from designers like Dolce & Gabbana, and now the usuall…

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…

Branded TV Shows – Tommy Hilfiger TV

(TrendHunter.com) Tommy TV is the new online television station launched by Tommy Hilfiger and Sony BMG.

When I read first the news, I thought “Well, well, well, how much of a brand worshipper do you have to be in order to watch TV created by your favourite brand?” But after that, I realized that it could be a grea…

Rock ‘n’ Roll Home Collections – Successful Living from Diesel (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Diesel, one of the most frequently featured fashion brands on Trendhunter.com, has launched a new home line called Successful Living from Diesel.

The collection, “Is built around a rock ‘n’ roll and casual living concept, which incorporates Diesel’s trademark style and attitude,” the press release…