Lourdes Sanchez and Her Top 20 Trends

If you’ve been tracking the top Trend Hunters, you’ve no doubt stumbled upon the work of our very own Lourdes Sanchez. 

A New York City local, Lourdes is a trained anthropologist and economist who freelances in the world of architecture… How’s that for variety?  You’d expect nothing less from a top Trend Hunter.

Over the last few months, Lourdes has been on fire, introducing us to Kid Drawings Made Into Art, Alien Architecture and Gravity Defying Houses.  Check out her portfolio at:  TrendHunter.com/anelli

The following is a list of Lourdes Sanchez’s 20 most popular trends. 

Lourdes Sanchez’s 20 Most Popular Trends

1. Kid Drawings Made Realistic - The Monster Engine (GALLERY)

The Monster Engine harnesses the purest creativity found in children and transforms their scribbles and art work into more professional looking paintings.

Instead of just seeking inspiration from, or reinterpreting, their work, Dave Devries asks, “What would children’s drawings look like if the… [More]

2. Alien-Themed Architecture - Giger Bar (VIDEO)

Artist Han Rudi Giger, better known as H.R. Giger, is recognized worldwide as one of the foremost artists of Fantastic Realism as well as his famous work on the pop culture film series, Alien. Now Giger has designed a bar in Gruyere, Switzerland based on the fiction themes he’s gained notoriety for.… [More]

3. Gravity Defying Houses - Daring Architecture

It’s really hard for me to believe that the second house from the top clockwise is not a Photoshop product. The house, which is located in the Ukraine, is being supported by a single cantilever. That is it. The first house meanwhile, is located in Russia according to likecool.com, and it belonged to… [More]

4. Stripping Celebs of Youth - Miley Cyrus for Controversial Vanity Fair Spread (VIDEO)

Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old Hannah Montana star and a face of the Disney empire, says she regrets posing for a risque photo shoot in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair. The photos were shot by famed photographer Annie Leibowitz for the June issue of the magazine. Miley, who was accompanied by her fat… [More]

5. $2 Billion Homes - Antilla is World’s Most Expensive House (FOLLOW-UP) (VIDEO)

Nearly a year after our first post, we have more info about the personal skyscraper being built by Mukesh Ambani, the head of the Mumbai-based petrochemical Reliance Industries. He is also the fifth richest man in the world with a net worth of $46 billion. Ambani is making the most of his bank accou… [More]

6. Painted Skin Shoes - Temptu Paints (GALLERY)

The shoe, the stilettos and the Adidas sneakers you see in the gallery are all trompel’oeil paintings applied directly to the feet by a company named Temptu Paints.  The New York City-based company specializes in airbrush make-up, temporary tattoos, body art and special effects makeup. The company,… [More]

7. Superhero Fashion - Fantasy Exhibit at the Met (GALLERY)

The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art spring exhibit called Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy kicks off on May 7th. The exhibit, spearheaded by the work of young super model, Coco Rocha, is being sponsored by Giorgio Armani. The May issue of US Vogue magazine also features a roboti… [More]

8. Humanized Cartoons II - Jessica Rabbit Untooned (VIDEO)

Remember Jessica Rabbit? She is the sultry human cartoon wife of Roger Rabbit in the 1988 Academy-Award winning film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The movie mixed action with animation to create a marvelous “toon” universe.  Jessica Rabbit was “untooned” and made to look lifelike and the result is prett… [More]

9. Shockvertising with Bite - Stella Espresso Coffee

This is an ad from Stella Espresso Coffee which seeks to express to coffee drinkers in Italy just how strong their coffee is and how much “bite” it really has.  The scorpion, which is made out of coffee beans, is crawling up the woman’s nose and lingering around her mouth to graphically represent t… [More]

10. Eastern European Shockvertising - APFR Battered Women Ads

The Association for the Promotion of Women in Romania (APFR is the acronym in Romanian) put out this ad showcasing the plight of battered women in that Eastern European Country. The very same ad could be splattered on any public telephone of any country in the world. Some well traveled, abused clich… [More]

11. Designer Weapons - The Revolution Will Be Fabulous Exhibit (GALLERY)

The “Chemical Warfare Fashion” featured on Trend Hunter a few days ago showed us how to look fabulously hip in case of a massive chemical attack.  This collection of “designer” weapons may have been conceived along the same lines. Designed by Peter Gronquist, the collection The Revolution will be F… [More]

12. 5 Spectacular Swimming Pools (GALLERY)

These are some of the world’s most impressive swimming pools which are, for the most part, in hotels and resorts. The article I am borrowing this from, had listed 13 swimming pools but due to space constraints, I had to shrink the list down to only 5 of MY favorite photos of the world’s most incredi… [More]

13. Eye Candy - Top 8 Innovations For Your Eyes (Including Creepy Contact Lenses) (GALLERY)

Why not enhance your eyes with a new flavor of contacts, eye tattoos or special jewelry that sticks to your cornea?  Yes, good times. The first example on our list would be FXeyes.  These special effect contact lenses are kind of creepy. They are produced by a company named Fxeyes which specializes… [More]

14. Superhero Fashion (Follow Up) - Fantasy Exhibit at the Met (GALLERY)

This is a follow-up on a trend we published recently about the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibit.  We already told you the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York would be featuring a huge collection of fantasy costumes inspired by comic book characters and superhero movies, but now we know t… [More]

15. Creative Toilet Signs - Bathroom Humor (GALLERY)

These toilet signs are so funny, and so very creative! I particularly like the sign with the underwear and the one made with rope. But I think all five of the toilet signs are very well made. I have a gripe though. I don’t think looking at something I find humorous would help me in the least while I… [More]

16. Fake Flesh Body Suits - Nicole Tran Ba Vang (GALLERY)

I don’t really know what to make of Nicole Tran Ba Vang body suits. I don’t even know what it’s correct to call the fake, PhotoShopped boobs, butt and other body parts. Is her photographic work social commentary, camouflage, body enhancement or women’s flesh clothing? Or all of the above? [More]

17. Untooning Video Game Characters - Bowser Gets Real (GALLERY)

Following in the footsteps of the great work done by Pixeloo of “untooning” Mario, Homer and Jessica Rabbit, Essenmitsosse.de has untooned the famous Nintendo game villain, Bowser. Bowser is the leader and most powerful of the turtle-like Koopa race and Mario’s arch-nemesis. The PhotoShopped work i… [More]

18. Retro SuperCar Revivals - BMW M1 Homage (GALLERY)

BMW unveiled the M1 Homage, the luxury auto maker’s sleek new super car at the Concorso d’Eleganza at the Hotel Villa d’Este this past weekend. The unveiling of the Homage was to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the M1 super car model which was discontinued in 1981. [More]

19. Porn Inspired by Video Games - World of Warcraft Inspired Whorelor (GALLERY)

Video games are the inspiration to the latest genre of pornography.  “Welcome to a world of magical nymphos, broadsword-bearing maidens, and elf orgies”, reads the first sentence in the Village Voice article about “Whorelore: Swords, Sorcery, and Sex”, a web porn series based on the immensely popu… [More]

20. Untooning (Part V) - Stewie, Peter Griffin, Marge Simpson, Betty Boop, The Little Mermaid (GALLERY)

Several weeks ago, Trend Hunter started breaking the news about Untooning, the process of transforming cartoons into art.  Now, there is a rash of untooning going on in the blogosphere. Lucky for us all, Worth1000 decided to launch Untooning as a contest.  The result is that a whole bunch of very… [More]