Consignment from small trendy chaps with a bit of talent (8)
I believe the answer is:
shipment
'consignment' is the definition.
(I know that consignment can be written as shipment)
'small trendy chaps with a bit of talent' is the wordplay.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'trendy' becomes 'hip' (both can mean fashionable).
'chaps' becomes 'men' (chap means a man).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'a bit of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'talent' is 't'.
's'+'hip'+'men'+'t'='SHIPMENT'
'from' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for shipment that I've seen before include "Consignment of goods" , "A consignment as for marine transport" , "22 [CARGO]" , "load" .)