trendsetter
noun
trend·set·ter
ˈtren(d)-ˌse-tər 
variants
or less commonly trend-setter
plural trendsetters also trend-setters
: 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
Francis DavisThe county has become a trendsetter in other types of environmental legislation …—Chemical & Engineering News
Chemical & Engineering NewsExamples of trendsetter in a Sentence
a closely watched trendsetter in women's fashions
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
The trendsetter’s bespoke fashion sense was the blueprint, said Carine Roudil, chief marketing officer of The Hair Edit.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 May 2026
Naperville is the trendsetter to the nation.
—Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Yet Spain sees itself not as a continental outlier but as a trendsetter.
—Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
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“Trendsetter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trendsetter. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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