Sending Your Hair to Celebrities – PETA’s Birthday Idea for the Trollsen Twins (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) PETA is known for doing some pretty outrageous publicity stunts, but their birthday idea for the Olsen twins is more funny than disturbing, yet it still makes the point very clear: stop wearing fur, i…

Presidential Election 2.0 – Google Trends

(TrendHunter.com) Google Trends lets you see the relative popularity of different search terms in graph form. TechCrunch brings up an interesting point – can the search terms of the pre-election masses predict our next…

Uber Geek Biopics – Leonardo DiCaprio as Atari Founder

(TrendHunter.com) Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play Atari super nerd Nolan Bushnell in an upcoming biopic produced by DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company.

Born in 1943, the gaming innovator founded Atari i…

5 Hot Green Women – Ecosphere Knock-Outs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Earthfirst.com is picking the Top 25 Hottest Women and Men of the Ecosphere. I’m really skeptical of any list that has Angelina Jolie as #6, but that’s where she is ranked. Here are numbers 10 through…

Spartan Soccer Warriors – 300 Dutch Football Team Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Super talented photographer Erwin Olaf was commissioned by AD newspaper to capture the Dutch football team for their Euro Championship special in an intense, visually captivating ‘300’ themed spre…

Banning Size Zero – US Considers “The Beauty of Health” (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Council for Fashion Designers of America may have gotten a wakeup call from Europe, where some governments are banning very, very thin models, the size zero. At London Fashion Week a model was act…

Celeb Metamorphosis Spreads – Angelina Jolie’s Vanity Fair Photos (II) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Vanity Fair revealed the much anticipated photos from their hot July issue featuring Angelina Jolie. Besides the voluptuous cover shot, photographer Patrick Demarchelier captured Jolie on January 31 i…

Designer Visualization Dolls – Viktor & Rolf Anniversary Exhibit (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The kings of peculiar fashion, Viktor & Rolf, celebrate their unique work of the last 10 years with an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Holding true to their reputation, they are not …

Star-Studded Luxury Proms – Ultimate Prom at St. Francis Prep School (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If you thought My Super Sweet 16 featured over-the-top luxury parties, you haven’t seen footage of the prom at St. Francis Preparatory High School in Queens.

The “ultimate prom,” as the media is call…

Throwing Money From Planes – Tung Desem Waringin’s Publicity Stunt (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Instead of investing thousands of dollars in marketing campaigns, motivational speaker Tung Desem Waringin will throw 100 million rupiah ($10,740) out of a plane to promote his new book.

To put into…

Supermodel Smiling Lessons – Tyra Banks Shows 275 Smiles (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Supermodel and talk-show host Tyra Banks is featured on the cover of the latest issue of The New York Times Magazine in a cover story profile that shares her secret weapon arsenal of 275 smiles.

From…

Film Festival Fashion – Cannes 2008 Style Wrap Up (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Although there’s no official awards ceremony for best-dressed at big Hollywood events, there may as well be. The Cannes Film Festival wrapped up this week, and as expected, the sartorial highlights la…

Dual Cover Duels – Carrie or Charlotte? for Marie Claire (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sex and the City stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis will star in a double cover face-off on the upcoming issue of Marie Claire UK. At least that’s how the magazine is promoting the special i…

Fashion ParAdies – James Corden As David Beckham For Armani (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Some pictures just beg to be parodied. After recently featuring a spoof of Lohan’s recreation of Monroe’s Last Sitting shoot, we bring you a parody of one of the most iconic underwear ads of the past …

Unmasking Celebrities – Shakira, Hilton & Jolie Without Plastic Surgery (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Xiomara Coronado Beauty Center wants you to know that ‘Nobody is younger than you,’ as long as you get plastic surgery. To illustrate that, they created these images of what they think famous celebrities would look like without having had these operations.

You get to see what they think Shakira…

Top 19 Virgin Innovations + Branson’s New Book

(TrendHunter.com) Sir Richard Branson is releasing Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur in September. In the publication, which is being released by Virgin Books, Branson will finally reveal the keys to his success.

“What I’ve found is that there is no single prescription for running a succes…

Egging CEOs – Student Attacks Microsoft’s Steve Balmer (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Microsoft CEO, Steve Balmer was up for a pretty nice surprise when he visited a Budapest university. One of the students, obviously upset about Microsoft’s policies, decided throwing an egg in Steve’s face would put matters right.

I only wish his aim had been better. Steve managed to duck behin…

Cigarette Drawings – Smoking Kills More Than Hitler & Bin Laden

(TrendHunter.com) If only Hitler could charge a fee for his face being used in so many ads! Following the Malaria campaign which painted Hitler & Stalin with mosquitoes to illustrate the danger of the disease, a new anti-smoking campaign uses a similar approach by drawing the Nazi leader and the notorious Osama Bin L…

Online Love for London Mayor – I Did Not Vote For Boris (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) London has a new mayor, and the story of how he got elected is very interesting. A ton of people thought it would be funny to vote for someone called Boris Johnston (see video); in fact, so many that he actually got in!

The web is alive with sites dedicated to Boris or Bo Jo. The blog roll is real…

Fashion Designers As Art Icons – Marc Jacobs as Andy Warhol for Interview Magazine (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Continuing the trend of fashion designers posing as models, Marc Jacobs channels his inner Andy Warhol in a very interesting and unique shoot featured on the cover and inside the pages of the upcoming June/July 2008 issue of Interview Magazine.

The special feature is a celebration of Andy Warhol’s…