Someone who popularizes a new fashion.
1 Clearly a taste - maker , she is something of a contradiction: undoubtedly cliquey, yet with a reputation for being down-to-earth and unaffected.
2 Talvin Singh OK (Island) Talvin Singh is the Anglo-Asian taste - maker responsible for this fusion between East and West.
3 I am a taste - maker , no less, on whose every word intelligent people hang when deciding what they should or shouldn't be laughing at.
4 Behold New York's literary taste - makers acting like a bunch of cowardy custards.
5 These are the taste - makers , the selected few who are granted entry to this elite club.
6 Customers and taste - makers remain to be convinced.
7 The consensus among taste - makers says Brown is irrelevant and repetitive, his anger-management issues a stain on a once-great career.
8 But readers hoping for an in-the-trenches account from Ebert's decades as one of the nation's taste - makers will be disappointed.
9 The festival has grown from humble roots in 1987 to become a must-attend event for global music business rainmakers and taste - makers .
10 Her debut album "19" is due for release later this month but, as far as taste - makers and pundits are concerned, she cannot fail.
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