"The Rings of Akhaten", as Clara's first trip to an alien world, was intended to show the wonders of the universe instead of the Doctor getting his new companion trapped somewhere less glamorous, a trend that had been observed in the history of the programme.
These 12 celebrities all started out life with another name -- often one far less glamorous and trend-setting.
Research institutions are prone to follow the glamorous and popular trends and, in exchange, they have lost sight of more practical matters.
But Devotion felt like the striking of a deal that made everyone a winner, Ware transformed herself into glamorous futuro-soul singer, while setting the trend for pop's high street.
But behind this trend is a less-than-glamorous reality.
"There has been a decided shift to a sexy, glamorous, almost trashy interpretation of fashion," said Connie Marsh, trend and design manager for Sears, Roebuck & Company, whose 860 stores serve middle-income people across the country.
On the margins of the festival, however, among the various documentary sections that Sundance and its rival, the concurrently running Slamdance Film Festival, had to offer, a little-discussed micro-trend could be glimpsed: stories of glamorous frauds.
But there is one program, glamorous in its own way, that gleefully bucks the trend.
Yet even the tersely glamorous Mr. Reid had slim Bermudas in his collection, a trend this season, with stilettos.
"Trend watching" in Paris certainly sounds like a glamorous occupation and is more likely to conjure up images of behind the scenes at the great fashion houses of Cacharel, Chanel, Dior, and Gaultier than the Netherlands Embassy.
