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Top 30 Hip Fashion Trends in 2008 H1 Edit

Top 30 Hip Fashion Trends in 2008 H1

Published: Jun 22, 08
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This mega gallery features the top 40 hip fashion trends based on our statistics for the first half of the year.

From celebrity swimwear lines to inflatable fashion, the category features a wide range of styles and likelihood of becoming mainstream. But everything in this list is hip and exciting.

This is one of many features in our new FREE Micro Trend Reports section.

Top 30 Hip Fashion Trends

1. Inflatable Couture- Dresses Made Entirely of Twisted Balloons (GALLERY)

These dresses, made entirely out of twisted balloons, are an absolute wonder to look at. They were crafted with the same techniques clowns use to make balloon animals, yet these pieces are a lot more elaborate.…

2. Hot Spring Fashion Hues - Top 5 Blues For Spring 2008 (GALLERY)

Spring fashions will soon be adorning the shelves of our fav boutiques, and this year, like any other, the colour blue will be a large part of the spring pallet; however, this time around there is something…

3. Real Life Barbies - Evelina Bratell’s 1959 Doll Fashions (GALLERY)

Inspired by the iconic 1959 Barbie, Evelina Bratell a student at Beckmans design school, created a fascinating Barbie fashion collection with a photography theme of living in the Barbie doll house.

Bratell’s…

4. Fashion Designers As Models - Tom Ford From Head to Toe in Prestige (GALLERY)

I am noticing an increasing trend of top male fashion designers flaunting their own physique. From Marc Jacobs parading his new lean body shirtless in numerous recent editorials and shoots to this exclusive…

5. Killer Heels - Cruel Designer Shoes (GALLERY)

We’ve seen some innovative shoe designs, but these are truly wicked. Ladies, you think you have a pair of shoes that kills? Unless you’ve worn some of these, you can’t complain about having a tortured…

6. Victoria Beckham Naked for Cancer - Protect the Skin You’re In Tees

After Marc Jacobs SS 2008 campaign, Victoria Beckham appears uncovered on top for the project “Protect the skin you’re in”.

The T-shirts are being sold this week at select Marc Jacobs boutiques…

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,…

8. Brazil Underwear Day - Bus Station Hosts Underwear Fashion Show & Go (VIDEO)

Agreed not a new type of event, as New York has its very own National Underwear Day dating back to 2003, but this similar event in Brazil (in its second year) is more of a fashion show, as it represents…

9. Designer Lookbooks - Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2008 (GALLERY)

If you’re looking for tips on what to wear this summer, look no further than Dolce & Gabbana’s new Spring/Summer 2008 Lookbook which offers an explosion of style and eye-candy.

The lookbook features models…

10. Fairy Fashion - Sprites For Spring/Summer 2008 (GALLERY)

Stylish women wanting to stay ahead of the fashion game had getter begin getting enchanted by the world of fairies, sprites and nymphs. Taking a look at the most recent runways, it looks like these mythical…

11. Keyboard Pants - Beauty and the Geek Jeans (GALLERY)

Designer Erik De Nijs stitched up this techno-geeky pair of jeans so that wherever he went, he wouldnt be far connecting to technology.
Built in to the knees are speakers for rocking while you run, and…

12. Colorful Wedding Gowns - Brides Ditch Traditional White (GALLERY)

While it may slowly be happening in other places too, in Canada it’s become quite evident that an increasing amount of brides are shunning the traditional white wedding dress.

Women are wearing everything…

13. New York Fashion Week Fall 2008 - Highlights (SUPER GALLERY)

Fashion Week in New York City has officially wrapped up with the last of the Fall 2008 collections shown yesterday. Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Sean John and Ralph Lauren ended the week on a very high note.…

14. Shoe Made of Garbage - Nike Trash Talk

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…

15. Design Your Own Shoes Part II - Custom Vans

Custom Vans for fifty bucks? Nope not a mommy van, but a shoe. Van’s has developed a whole lifestyle around their brand. By sponsoring skateparks, events, entertainment, they have a very loyal following.…

16. Third Eye Garments - Paul Coudamy’s Hard-Wear Jacket (GALLERY)

The Hard-Wear jacket by Paul Coudamy allows the wearer to establish visual contact with what’s going on behind him. A fusion of fashion and technology, the Hard-Wear jacket comes outfitted with a micro-camera…

17. Neon Fashion - Victoria Beckham’s Vibrant Yellow Tube Dress (GALLERY)

Victoria Beckham would disagree with anyone who says she gets enough attention already. At least that’s what you’d assume if you saw the ultra-vibrant neon hues the Spice Girl was sporting while out for…

18. Kirsten Dunst For Miu Miu - Ad Campaign Spring/Summer 2008 (GALLERY)

The long-awaited Miu Miu campaign with Kirsten Dunst, that was shot last November is finally out! These photos are simply mesmerizing! Kirsten, who replaced Laeticia Casta fits amazingly in the world of…

19. Haute Celebrity Fashion - Herve Ledger Bandage Dress (GALLERY)

The Herve Ledger, by Max Azaria, bandage dresses are the “it” fashion garment of the season, the rich and famous are going crazy for it. These bandage dresses hug the bodies of Lindsay Lohan, Victoria…

20. Racing Shoes - Porsche 911 GT3 RS Nike Air Max Light (GALLERY)

Next time you put the pedal to the metal, why not do it a pair of Porsche branded Nikes?

These Nike Air Max Light shoes were inspired by the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The car will be created in silver, black,…

21. White Denim - Armani Jeans Are White Hot (GALLERY)

Listen up fashionistas, white denim is in.

Giorgi Armani unveiled the hot new ads for Armani Jeans Spring/Summer 2008, and it looks like white jeans are the ticket to fabulous this summer.

We have become…

22. New Diesel Ads - Live Fast (Update) (GALLERY)

Diesel released new ads in their super creative and successful ‘live fast’ campaign. Stitches shows a model running away while the surgeon is trying to finish stitching her leg. Lipstick shows a group…

23. Croc Cell Phone Case - Crocs O-dial Phone Case (GALLERY)

I loathe Croc, but yet again I find myself writing about them. The company behind the beastly plastic shoes has released a branded cell phone holder that looks just like the slip on garden/nurse shoes,…

24. Leggy Marc Jacobs Ad - Victoria Beckham In A Bag (GALLERY)

Wow, either this is a stroke of marketing genius or a backfire. After Victoria Beckham was listed as number one on Blackwells’ Worst Dressed List, Marc Jacobs released photos of her for the new Spring…

25. Design Your Own Dress Online - StyleShake.com

If you know exactly how you want to the perfect dress to look like, but have never found it to actually exist, then this site is the one for you.
Styleshake.com allows you to design a bespoke dress online…

26. Magalogue - The Return of Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly (GALLERY)

Warning: partial nudity. After a five years absense, Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly is returning with a bang across the pond with the legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber (so expensive that U.S. Vogue…

27. Fashion Designers As Art Icons - Marc Jacobs as Andy Warhol for Interview Magazine (GALLERY)

Continuing the trend of fashion designers posing as models, Marc Jacobs channels his inner Andy Warhol in a very interesting and unique shoot featured on the cover and inside the pages of the upcoming…

28. Hi-Tech Fashion Has Lungs - Smoking Jacket

This remarkably high-tech jacket is designed for the polite smoker who doesn’t want to fumigate non-smokers in the area.

When exhaling, the wearer of the Smoker Jacket can blow down the side of the collar…

29. Celebrity Swimwear Lines - Liz Hurley’s Bikini Range for Mango (GALLERY)

Being 42 years old never looked this good! Actress, model, and businesswoman Liz Hurley looks stunning in a yacht-set shoot to launch a series of her own swimwear designs for the High Street store Mango.…

30. Visual Extravaganza Ads - Dolce & Gabbana Women Spring/Summer 2008 (GALLERY)

Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring/Summer 2008 women’s ad campaign embodies the designers’ vision for the season - a perfect fusion of fashion and art - with hand painted dresses shot in an artist’s studio…

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