Milan Fashion Week 2008 – Just Cavalli, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dolce and Gabbana showed a darling plaid dress in Milan, while Just Cavalli took a tour of the sixties with luxe wide legged pants, seventies with love it fur, wide legs and totes color, and the eighties with shiny vinyl. Ponchos will be the must have for the Fall as every designer is showing their …

Exclusive Runway Model Gloves – Ginta Siceva Gentility (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You have to check out these wild wooden gloves! Actually of two parts, the first is the suede glove with the second part being a hand carved chestnut bracelet. Also shown is an arm decoration made of wooden hand-curved highlights inspired by and Art Nouveau water drop. The third shows a luxurious an…

Website Good For the Sole – ShoeTube

(TrendHunter.com) I can hear the men groaning already. ShoeTube is a niche video sharing site like YouTube dedicated to those beautiful designs that complete our soles. Sure it sounds a little silly, and you may be wondering what kind of content you’ll find on a channel dedicated to shoes.

Guys are probably thinkin…

Skin Colored Turtle Necks – Missoni Fall 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Deep, plunging necklines are stunning, yet they’re a look many women aren’t comfortable pulling off. A perfect solution are skin coloured turtle necks, as seen at Missoni at Milan Fashion Week.

Paired with a turquoise and brown floral gown which plummeted at the cleavage, the neutral toned sweater…

Fashion, Art & Social Commentary – ‘Lamp Girls’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is absolutely the best and most creative use of fashion and art to make a social statement I have seen of late. Marianne Maric, a french super talented recent art school graduate, is considering working as a photographer.. or stylist.. or designer… Well, she hasn’t made up her mind just yet, …

Mechanical Luxury – Roland Iten’s Belt Buckles

(TrendHunter.com) There’s luxury. And then, there’s LUXURY. The men’s watches and accessories designer, Roland Iten, falls into the latter. This company has started an uber-luxury product line of hi-precision, solid-gold, mechanical belt buckles. These fine trouser-accessories will cost you a whooping $25,000. Thin…

Biodegradable Couture – Helen Storey’s Dissolving Wardrobe

(TrendHunter.com) Hopefully you are recycling your clothes by giving them to a younger sibling, goodwill or the like. But imagine a world where your clothes had an expiration date and started dissolving.

What a great way to punk that co-worker you hate. Loan her your expired dress. Helen Storey wants couture to be …

Velcro Jacket – Takkiainen (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While the Takkiainen was designed to bring together lonely people who might happen to brush up against each other in a busy city, the most fantastic implication of the Velcro jackets is their possibility to attach babies and children to the body. How much easier would it be to stick your kid on your…

Flamingo Print Retro – Just Cavalli Fall 2008 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Roberto Cavalli just showed his more affordable line, Just Cavalli, at Milan Fashion Week which was full of retro inspirations and some unexpected hot pink bird motifs.

Staying true to his signature look, the collection was heavy on animals prints, particularly leopard which was seen repeatedly on…

Wear Your Investment – $275,000 Gold Coin Gown (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Wear your riches on your sleeve. Japan’s largest bullion house showed off a gleaming gown which is covered with hundreds of gold coins. The 8 kilos (18 pounds) dress was created by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewellery K.K. using 325 Austrian gold coins issued to commemorate the Vienna Philharmonic and is val…

Coiled Man Hair For Women – Shehawks at Emporio Armani (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Watching the Emporio Armani show, it was difficult to stay focused on the fashions being paraded down the runway as my gaze was stuck on the model’s heads.

The hairstyles at the Milan Fashion Week show weren’t elaborate, brightly coloured or large. They were short and mannish, coiled on top of the…

Angst of Prom 2008 Reduced – MyPromStyle.com Aims At Teens

(TrendHunter.com) All over the U.S. teenage girls are txting and IMing about the prom and having giggling fits as well as real angst. Hearst Digital Media wants them online. MyPromStyle.com is a new site with fashion, quizzes, slideshows, to help them be confident about their style CosmoGIRL, Seventeen and TEEN are c…

Year of the Rat – Mouse Invades Runway via Vivienne Tam (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Rats on the runway! Very appropriate that Vivienne Tam’s Fall 2008 collection paid homage to the Chinese calendar Year of the Rat by putting Minni Mouse on one her creations. It’s a sell out because Tam works with Disneyland Hong Kong and helped with their campaign to get tourists from mainland Chi…

Over the Top Fashion – Garb That Can’t Be Serious (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Fashion designers have a sense of humor. They must have to create these outfits and put them on the catwalk. Or maybe the cat was the inspiration when it hocked up a hairball. At any rate, these out of this world creations are real, they did show at a recent major event, and be sure to check out the…

Personal Generator Suit – Charging Nanofibre Yarn

(TrendHunter.com) Dead phone or MP3 player batteries may soon be a thing of the past as there is now a personal generator suit to ensure your gadgets are always charged.

Nature.com reports that “Zhong Lin Wang and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have made a yarn out of nanofibres th…

Escalator Morphs Hairstyles – Juice Salon Ad (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) An awesome new experience might just be your next escalator ride, that is if Juice Salon is advertising in your mall.

While you’re standing there looking down at the moving stairs five minutes after you’ve gotten off, passersby will understand your awe struck behavior when they see this nifty cre…

Return of Heroin Chic – Vivienne Westwood Red Label (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While at first glance this may look like an angry animal rights activist protesting fur on the runway, this is actually a model from Vivienne Westwood’s Fall 2008 show.

Part of the British designer’s collection shown at London Fashion Week included a model in tattered black tights with what looked…

Fashions of the Future – Jose Miro’s Sartorial Predictions (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) World renowned Spanish designer Jose Miro did some navel gazing recently and came up with these fashions of the future.

Ironically, two of these designs are remarkably similar to actual designs we are seeing on runways today: the shoulder padded fur number and the beekeeper’s delight.

Cosmetics…

Witch Fashion – Luella Fall 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Halloween is a big part of autumn for many people, but has the marketing become so influential on our society that a designer can design a ready to wear collection inspired by it? Luella marched model Alice Gibb down the runway dressed as a witch, complete with pointed hat and pumpkin orange tights …

Shoe Made of Garbage – Nike Trash Talk

(TrendHunter.com) Nike’s latest line of shoe design is garbage. Literally. The Nike Trash Talk are actually made from manufacturing wastes, which is kind of hard to believe looking at their crisp white design.

They were designed based on the shoes worn by Steve Nash of the Phoenix Sons, hence the electric orange la…