tastemaker

English

Etymology

From taste +‎ maker.

Noun

tastemaker (plural tastemakers)

  1. A trendsetter with respect to taste.
    The tastemakers have just discovered his work.
    • 1987 August 30, Grace Glueck, “Tastemakers”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[1], archived from the original on 28 March 2023:
      SMILE WHEN YOU CALL AN ART worldling a "tastemaker." […] Where previous great tastemakers such as the Steins, the artist Marcel Duchamp and the dealer Alfred Stieglitz were dedicated amateurs, few in number, today there are swarms of them whose interests are professional or commercial.
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