trend-setter
taste-maker
fashion arbiter

First the nation's fashion arbiters determine the new fall colors and explain why America desperately needs clothes in these hues.

She had been rejected by co-op boards and insulted by fashion arbiters.

The day gives anyone, no matter how unknown or impoverished, an opportunity to meet with fashion arbiters who can make - or break - careers.

It was a time when fashion arbiters were more influential.

Accessories are not spared the withering gaze of the fashion arbiters at league headquarters, either.

THE fashion arbiters have decided low-heeled shoes will be in style soon.

No edict of fashion arbiters will ever swathe you in long and cumbersome skirts.

Here, weather is a fashion arbiter.

I could have wished that some fashion arbiter would also do away with corsets.

They took it from being a small respected luggage company to a global fashion arbiter.