Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - trend-setter

also trendsetter (trend-setters) A trend-setter is a person or institution that starts a new fashion or trend. N-COUNT TRENDY (trendier, trendiest) 1. If you say that something or someone is trendy, you mean that they are very fashionable and modern. (INFORMAL) ...a trendy London night club. ADJ 2. If you describe someone who follows new ideas as trendy, you disapprove of them because they are more interested in being fashionable than in thinking seriously about these ideas. (INFORMAL) Trendy teachers are denying children the opportunity to study classic texts. ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval