a person or group that influences fashionable or popular taste
tastemaker in American English
(ˈteistˌmeikər)
noun
a person or thing that establishes or strongly influences what is considered to bestylish, acceptable, or worthwhile in a given sphere of interest, as the arts
Word origin
[1950–55; taste + maker]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bleep, drip-dry, hot line, point spread, point-of-sale
Examples of 'tastemaker' in a sentence
tastemaker
He is a noncelebrity tastemaker.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Did some ancient tastemaker make an arbitrary choice that the rest of us simply followed?