trendsetter

noun

trend·set·ter ˈtren(d)-ˌse-tər

variants or less commonly trend-setter

plural trendsetters also trend-setters

Synonyms of trendsetter next

: one that sets a trend : someone or something that starts or helps to popularize a new fashion, style, movement, etc.

a trendsetter in the fashion industry

Every ten years or so, for a different set of reasons each time, cultural trendsetters rally behind one musician with whom they sense a bond and who then comes to symbolize jazz to the mass media.—

Francis Davis

The county has become a trendsetter in other types of environmental legislation …—

Chemical & Engineering News

Examples of trendsetter in a Sentence

a closely watched trendsetter in women's fashions

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In the 1980s, the first ornamental goose sat perched on one Midwestern trendsetter's porch. —

Isabella Milano, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2024 The demise of a former trendsetter The Bridgehampton store opened in 1999, taking the place of a former regional discount store, Caldor. —

Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024 Australia and England were the trendsetters of women's cricket, winning every World Cup bar New Zealand's 50-over triumph in 2000, until the West Indies' surprising breakthrough. —

Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 The star, who has become one of the biggest nail trendsetters of the decade, swapped her cozy fall nudes in favor of something a little more out-of-this-world. —

Kara Nesvig, Allure, 22 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for trendsetter