Warm weather has long made the ass the preferred fashion accessory for females around the country: Alexander McQueen kick-started things by unveiling his famous low-slung "Bumsters" back in the summer of 1992, thus paving the way for a generation of butt cleavage-rockers and whale tail aficionados. (The rapper Sisqo immortalized the trend with his 2000 opus, "Thong Song". The elegant refrain: "Let me see that thong.") But designers today are reaching new heights (or depths) in their fetishization of the posterior via what can only be described as the . Fashion blog Trend de la Creme has a selection of the finest offerings, which you can likely find delicately draped around the shapely derrieres a fashion-forward coeds near you. [Via Blackbook]

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