Paris Coutre Week Highlights – Five Designs from Chanel (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s passed. The biggest fashion day for Spring 2008. Coutre week is when the thoroughbred fashion horses trot out their finest innovations. Over the next few days, you can see five designs from the biggest designers and decide which you like overall. Chanel starts with some short pastel dresses tha…

Paris Couture Week Highlights – Five Designs from Chanel (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s passed. The biggest fashion day for Spring 2008. Couture week is when the thoroughbred fashion horses trot out their finest innovations. Over the next few days, you can see five designs from the biggest designers and decide which you like overall. Chanel starts with some short pastel dresses th…

Bum Covers Hide Your Thongs – Hip-T (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Ladies, how many times have you released your thong was poking out of your low rise jeans? Or that your tummy or lower back was suddenly getting a draft because those stupid designers couldn’t create a shirt long enough to keep your kidneys warm? It’s time you got a Hip-T.

They’re cotton waist cov…

Retail Giant Not Recognizing Blogs – Target Says They Don’t Care

(TrendHunter.com) Target doesn’t care what bloggers think about them. When a blogger emailed criticizing a billboard, she got a blow off email saying that Target doesn’t deal with non-traditional media. Target went on to say that this allows them time to focus their efforts on publications that reaches their core “gu…

Pushing the Boundaries of Athletic Shoes – Puma’s LA Cali Shoes with Gold (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Breezing along effortlessly in the park, or hanging out at the watering hole, these limited edition Puma Sportie LA Cali’s will stir souls. The combination of black and gold says exclusive and the back and side panels are gold – solid gold, layered under a black mesh. On the insole and sole are mont…

Airport Tarmac Turned Catwalk – Berlin Fashion Week 2008 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The HUGO by Hugo Boss show made quite an impression at Berlin Fashion Week on Sunday as it took off on the tarmac runways, creating a very surprising setting.

The Tempelhof Airport runways were transformed into catwalks to showcase a collection full of suits, skinny ties and tight turtle necks. Men…

$94,000 Diamond-Studded Cell Phone – Tiffany & Co Mobile

(TrendHunter.com) If the iPhone just isn’t trendy enough, how about a cell phone studded with 400 Tiffany diamonds? Tiffany & Co has teamed up with Softbank Mobile of Japan to produce this $94,000 beauty. The 400 diamonds will total over 20 carats making this one of the flashiest and trendiest phones around.

Party Liason (Part III) The Merchandise – Corey Worthington T Shirt

(TrendHunter.com) So the kid has a party and acts as either a legend or knob on Australian TV. These quickly turns Corey Worthington into a Z list celebrity almost instantly – as already covered in two parts on Trend Hunter. However a very amusing part three is the merchandise being developed – but not by Corey, I ha…

Sneaker Evolution Art – Koi Club x Asics Collectors Box

(TrendHunter.com) The Koi Club x Asics Collectors Box manages to put the billion years of human evolution into four basic stages and make it a work of art, from which any schoolchild would find it easy to remember Darwin’s theories – from fish to sneaker.

This is another fine example of the Koi Club finding new way…

Online Eyewear Testing – Revolutioneyes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Here’s another face/product mashup. Go from fab to funky without leaving your computer. Revolutioneyes is part of the ineyewear.com website where you can experiment with different size and shapes of eyewear. The site has a wide variety of glasses from the top names in eyewear, including Oakley, Bvu…

Barbed Wire Fashion – Maison Martin Margiela Menswear (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The metallic menswear theme is hot off the European catwalks. From Paris fashion week comes Maison Martin Margiela’s 20th anniversary show highlighting his fall-winter 08/09 collection. This much sought after Belgian designer, who interestingly chooses to stay out of the public eye, has celebrated h…

Jewelry Perfumes – Estee Lauder Luxury Scents

(TrendHunter.com) Perfumes give us a personal touch and represent us in the way we would like the world to see us. From vanilla scents to more intriguing or fresh scents, the world of perfumes complete our existence.

Some people, myself included, collect the most interesting and beautiful perfume bottles. Some of th…

Boot/Sneaker Hybrid – Nike Winter Hi2 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I wish I could tell you what it is about these Nike boots that makes them so intriguing, but I’m just going to have to stick with the fact they are uncommonly beautiful.

In a bizarre cross between a sneaker and a suede boot, the Winter Hi2 comes in three color variations: pink and brown (Baroque B…

Organic Sneakers in Amsterdam – Veja Collection By Christine Phung (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter covered the launch of Veja in 2006, the first organic sneakers made out from organic cotton from Brazil, natural latex from the Amazon Forest and ecological leather. From that time, an enormous number of brands have followed the lead of ecology to sell more; but Veja has kept true to it…

Light Tattoos & Skin Embossing – Temporary Body Mods by Kye Ok Kim (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This series of incredible temporary body modifcation devices was designed by Kye Ok Kim and showcased at Seoul Design Week 2007. They allow those who want to express themselves through artistic body work to do so via light, print or paint.

The light-emitted brooches project patterns onto the skin …

Ethnicity Swap Surgery – Brazilian Model Gets Japanese Eyes (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Each year, thousands of Asians go under the knife to have their eyes reshaped to resemble Caucasian peepers, but one Brazilian model has the opposite desire; she is desperate for an oriental slant.

Angela Bismarchi, 36, will undergo her 42nd surgery, making her second in the world for most plasti…

Elizabethan Fashion for Men – John Galliano Fall 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These designs were shown on the Parisian runways on January 18th during Paris Fashion Week. In a stark contrast to the couture part of the fall 2008 collection from John Galliano, these outfits are astonishingly lord-like. The collection included Elizabethan-inspired outfits with Shakespearean bowl-…

Luxurious Reptiles – Bogetta Python Bag & Crocodile Wedges

(TrendHunter.com) Hey old dude, what did you pay for your first house? $7,000? How about a nice handbag and shoes for that price? This Bogetta python bag is $4,100 and comes in a couple different colors. The Crocodile Wedges can be special ordered for $3600.

If that’s not enough pricey reptile skin, drop down to th…

Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton – Blason Jewelry (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Continuing his association with Louis Vuitton, performer-producer Pharrell Williams has teamed up with LV’s creative jewelry consultant, Camille Miceli to introduce a brand new jewelry collaboration under the Blason banner. The avant garde styles will be paraded at the Paris fashion shows, and take …

Fuzzy Zebra Sneakers – Nike Horse Packs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s clear animal prints have made a comeback, but many of us still want to ensure we stand out from the rest of the herd. That’s why we love these Nike Blazers so much.

Not only do these sneakers from the Horse Pack series have some series stripeage going on, but they’re also three dimensionally …