trendwatcher
nounEtymology From trend + watcher.
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One who studies trends and attempts to predict future trends.
- During the '90s, some social trendwatchers believe, the same overwhelming urge to join will drive aging yuppies off their treadmills and into the streets.1991, Kurt Finsterbusch, Annual Editions: Sociology, 91-92:
- With experience, a trendwatcher becomes skilled at spotting the elusive and subtle shifts that signal fashion change.2005, Evelyn L. Brannon, Fashion forecasting:
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- Trendwatchers make good money out of this uncertainty and fear of the future. They specialise in self-fulfilling prophecies: what they claim will be the new fashion, will probably become the fashion because they say so[…]2007, Kees Dorst, Understanding design: