trendwatcher

English

Etymology

From trend +‎ watcher.

Noun

trendwatcher (plural trendwatchers)

1. One who studies trends and attempts to predict future trends.
   • 1991, Kurt Finsterbusch, Annual Editions: Sociology, 91-92:

     During the '90s, some social trendwatchers believe, the same overwhelming urge to join will drive aging yuppies off their treadmills and into the streets.

   • 2005, Evelyn L. Brannon, Fashion forecasting:

     With experience, a trendwatcher becomes skilled at spotting the elusive and subtle shifts that signal fashion change.

   • 2007, Kees Dorst, Understanding design:

     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 […]