fashionista

Definition

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

Etymology

From fashion + -ista. Compare earlier Sandinista, Peronista, Guardianista. Piecewise doublet of earlier fashionist.

Example Sentences

• "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."