Fish Scale Bathings Suits – Salmon Skin Bikini (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What better way to swim with the fishes than using their skin to make bikinis? Leave it to Chilean fashion designer Claudia Escobar to transform cheap raw material such as the masses of Scottish Salmo…

Insect-Inspired Fashion – Mario Schwab’s Beetle Couture (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Marios Schwab appears to have a love for nature. The source of his inspiration for this dress collection comes from the beetle family of insects. One can observe the impact of the creepy creatures in …

Naughty Personified Plants – Vanity Fair’s Viagra Shoot (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Photographer Andreas Achmann recently did a Viagra shoot for Vanity Fair’s No. 17/2008 issue entitled “Wie Steht’s Denn?” which translates to “How’s that?”

The shoot creatively uses cactus plants to…

Childish Luxury Watches – Cartier Animarie (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Cartier getting cute with its ultra sophisticated, high-end jewelry is really something to behold, but the results are very pleasant in my opinion. Just take a look at their pretty, animal-inspired An…

X-Ray Travel Bags – Skooba TSA-Friendly Laptop Bag

(TrendHunter.com) Back in March, the Transportation Security Administration asked luggage manufacturers to come up with a checkpoint-friendly laptop bag. Currently, all laptops, DVD players and similar electronic devic…

Kitchen Jewelry – Wearable Pottery by Gesine Hackenberg (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Gésine Hackenberg is a German artist and metal smith who thinks outside the box when it comes to creating unusual jewelry. She connects between ordinary objects and making something wearable. Her kit…

Music Hats – iLogic Sound Hat

(TrendHunter.com) I have seen quite a few designs that integrate music with fashions like vests, T-shirts and even underwear, but I think I like this musical beanie the best. Mainly because of the convenience and the f…

Battered Pinup Girls – Memphis Roller Derby Calendar 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Who says beauty can’t be rough? As a newcomer sport in town, the Memphis Roller Derby approached Archer/Malmo ad agency to come up with creative ways to raise their profile and promote their teams.
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De-Uglifying Celebrities – Digital Beauty Evolutions of Stars (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) So many celebrities get plastic surgery, but have you ever wondered why they would choose that nose, or why they had their brows lifted so high? If you could tweak the faces of the famous, what would …

Punk Organic Fashion – Sandra Backlund’s Twisted Knits (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Swedish designer Sandra Backlund gives her organic and sculptural fashion collections funky names like, “Ink Blot Test”, “Perfect Hurts”, and “Blank Page”. Her current works titled, In No …

Portable Office in a Tie – Stationery Neckware

(TrendHunter.com) With the continuous trend and convenience of smaller and lighter gadgets in the business world, the portable office tie is a natural fit.

Although it might not be a big hit in the fashion world yet…

Heartbeat Controlled Fashion – Butterfly Flap Dress (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re wearing Alex Reeder’s beautiful white Butterfly Flap Dress, you won’t be able to hide the fact your crush gives you major butterflies. The second your heart rate speeds up, so does the pace at which the sensor-controlled butterflies beat their wings.

The dress was conceived by Reeder, an…

Anti-Radiation Fashion 3 – La-La Bras

(TrendHunter.com) This anti-radiation bustier was one of the featured items at the Beauty World Japan exhibition taking place in Tokyo this week. The La-La is a tourmaline-embedded bra/girdle whose purpose is to neutralize harmful radiation emissions from cell phones and improve a woman’s bad moods (PMS-related?) b…

Cardboard Retail Shops – The Bombed Mache By Ksubi (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While most of us are thinking of elaborate retail design concept, Ksubi opted for a much simpler, cheaper and earth-friendly shop concept. The cardboard collectors of the Australian fashion label were downright serious when they decided to build The Bombed Mache.

“The Bombed Mache” is Ksubi’s own …

Multi-Colored Animated Watches – Infection (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Famous for their unique and unconventional watch designs TokyoFlash’s latest model, Infection, keeps up that legacy with an original concept that sports a striking full face mirrored lens and an innovative way to view time.

Combining sleek curves, tri-colored LEDs and a pulsating new display, Inf…

Top 42 Functional Shoes – Footwear Beyond Fashion (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This Super Gallery showcases shoes that are more than just fashions statements. While some may still look stylish, each has a purpose beyond protecting the foot and looking chic. Some have high tech functionality, others are socially conscious and some are even used to spread messages. The cluster f…

Recycled Fence Totes – ORNJ Bags

(TrendHunter.com) Those plastic orange construction fences are brightly coloured because they are meant to catch your attention. Alas, they are also easily spotted as litter in fields and construction sites. Fortunately, some of it has been recycled to become ORNJ bags, really handy totes designed by Detroit based ar…

Recycled Bottle Ceilings – Aesop’s High Glass Boutique (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is further proof that sustainability does not have to look boring, drab and pedestrian. Australia-based brand Aesop, which specializes in boutique botanical skincare products, built a retail store in Adelaide that has a ceiling crafted entirely out of recycled bottles arranged in a funky wave p…

Photo Frame Sunglasses – Tiah Eyewear

(TrendHunter.com) Tiah Eyewhere now makes it possible to turn your optical frames into photo frames, allowing you to wear your memories wherever you go.

Tiah first launched a line of bracelets and rings designed to showcase small photos, and now they’ve branched to sunglasses.

The photos are inserted to the small…

Hello Kitty Weddings – Become Princess Kitty at Daiichi Hanyu (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Not to offend Hello Kitty fans, but I think that Hello Kitty weddings are unquestionably tacky.

A Japan-based hotel chain, Daiichi Hanyu, is offering professionally-themed Hello Kitty weddings. In a not-so-innovative naming attempt, they titled the theme, “Princess Kitty Wedding.”

The couple is es…