Designer Fantasy Prototypes – Prada’s 2008 Fashion Auction (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Prada held a Spring/Summer Women’s 2008 Fashion Auction recently of a collection of prototype garments, footwear and handbags. Intense in color, design and decoration, the ultra-flared silk gazar bottomline…

Giant Flip Flop Flower Beds – Guerrilla Havaianas Ad

(TrendHunter.com) Funky flip flop maker, Havaianas, is an incredible generator of creative ideas, not just in their footwear design, but in their advertising too. One of their most recent guerrilla stunt was a giant sculpture,…

Top 30 Hot New Shoes in 2008 (so far)

(TrendHunter.com) From killer heals to skateboarding sandals, this super gallery profiles the hottest new shoes in 2008.

The rankings are based on our visitors in the first half of 2008.

Top 30 Shoes in 2008

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Fake Hairy Toes – The Nike Human Shoes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Whatever possessed Nike to come up with these Human Shoes? The concept is indeed unique, quirky and plenty weird. However, I don’t think I know anyone who would like to walk around in footwear that looks…

19th Century Inspired Shoes – The POSSO Spat Collection (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Spats are a type of shoe accessory worn in the late 19th and early 20th century. POSSO The Spat project is an amalgam of footwear and design born from the minds of artists Marylouise Pels and Vanessa Giovacchini.…

Furniture for Feet – High Chair Shoes

(TrendHunter.com) Humans have invented numerous ways to make up for physical shortcomings. Hair extensions. Breast augmentation. Calf implants. Fake nails. Shoes that boost short folks an inch or so is nothing new either.…

Architecture Meets Fashion – Zaha Hadid Shoe Design (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A Trendhunter favourite, ultra-modern architect Zaha Hadid, will soon be offering her design skills to the footwear fashion world. According to Style.com, Hadid is set to be the next designer to collaborate…

Shoe Addiction – Showering & Swimming with Bocage (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We all know that women love fancy shoes. But when these shoes are Bocage, women love them so much that they keep them on even while taking a shower or swimming. That is what these new ads for French shoe…

Jelly Gladiator Sandals – HoKI Shoes

(TrendHunter.com) If you were getting sick of the gladiator sandal look, brace yourself, because HoKI is about the be kicked up a notch. The latest are jelly gladiator sandals, made of the same material the ones you had…

Footwear as Art – The F*ck Me! Shoe Collection (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These shoes are part of a collection of artist-decorated Terry de Havilland wedges. The shoes are collectively called F*ck Me! Shoes .

The collection was auctioned off 2 years ago to benefit the Chelsea…

Killer Heels III – Murderous Shoes

(TrendHunter.com) I think this is the most terrifying pair of shoes I have seen in my life. The razor thin heels of these red stilettos elevate perfectly perpendicular to the ground like ballet toes. But geometrical proportions…

Hollow Wedge Footwear – 6 Inch Tall Wood Wedges (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These wedge sandals elevate six inches off the ground. They’re absolutely perfect for women who are not very tall. The scooped out, open-toe, alder wood wedge platform feature leather upper and cushion-padded…

$2 Million Dollar Sandals – Stuart Weitzman’s Tanzanite Shoes

(TrendHunter.com) These sandals from Stuart Weitzman are priced at $2 million dollars. The super expensive silver-leathered footwear are decorated with 185 carats of tanzanite which is a rare gemstone found only in Africa…

Baby Footwear Fashion – ‘Heelarious’ Petite Pumps (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hip babies searching for a way to increase their glamour quotient, look no further! These tiny baby pumps are sized to fit infants up to 6 months old and are available in leopard and zebra prints, hot…

Classic Characters in Modern Couture – Przemek Sobocki’s Fantasy Fashion (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Przemek Sobocki combines fictional and fantasy characters with the fashion world’s hippest designer footwear and accessory pieces in these dazzling illustrations. The images are pieces from his most…

Shoes Made of Rice – The Secret to Olympic Gold?

(TrendHunter.com) The secret to winning Olympic gold may lie in an innovative new shoe made with grains of rice.

The Japanese sneakers, custom made by Hitoshi Mimura, will be put to the test by United State distance …

Weightloss Shoes – Chung Shi Footwear (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Chung Shi is the maker of an innovative new footwear promising to aid in weight loss. The fitness shoes have a built-in “Pilates System,” and promise to stimulate and build new muscles, thereby boosti…

Botanical Shoes – Shoe Fleur, A Footwear Fantasy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I saw Michel Tcherevkoff’s photographs of shoes and purses fashioned from plants and flowers.

“It all started with the underside of a banana leaf,” Luxu…

Hollow Wedge Sandals – United Nude Mobius Shoes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These gold sandals from United Nude look like something one might image a princess to wear in an Indian palace. The closed-toe Mobius wedges have a hollow heel, yet their rounded shape makes them look…

Convertible Sneaker Slippers – Nat2 Unzip to Transform

(TrendHunter.com) Nat2 has come up with a clever convertible design for their sneakers, or should I say their slippers. The sneakers come with a zipper hidden behind the shoe which can be unzipped to transform your sho…