fashionista

plural fashionistas

1. A person who creates or promotes high fashion, i.e. a fashion designer or fashion editor.

   Toronto fashionista Suzanne Boyd, editor-in-chief of the soon-to-be-launched Zoomer magazine, recently moved back to Canada after living in Manhattan for the past four years.

   2008 July 17, “High Style: Are you a Porter person?”, in Toronto Star, page L1

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   Standing on the corner of a west Hollywood street in Los Angeles is a giant pink building, brutalist in design but strikingly modern in style, and it is owned by Beeston's own fashionista Paul Smith.

   2021 April 16, Joseph Locker, “Paul Smith's 'pink wall' in Los Angeles becomes Insta-famous”, in Nottingham Post, archived from the original on 15 May 2021

2. A person who dresses according to the trends of fashion, or one who closely follows those trends.

   Synonyms: trendy, voguie, Corinthian, faddist, fashionable, fashionist, hepcat, hepster