fashionista

[fash-uh-nee-stuh]

noun

a very fashionable person, especially one who works in the fashion industry.

Origin of fashionista

1990–95; fashion + Italian or Spanish -ista -ist

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Contemporary Examples of fashionista

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The Fashion Beast Team
April 17, 2013
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The Fashion Beast Team
January 3, 2013
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Isabel Wilkinson
August 6, 2012
Katie Wants Suri All to Herself Six-year-old fashionista Suri might end up in the sole custody of her doting mom.
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July 1, 2012

Historical Examples of fashionista

Alan said remembering his promise to put her in touch with one of his fashionista protégés.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cory Doctorow

British Dictionary definitions for fashionista

fashionista

noun

informal a person who follows trends in the fashion industry obsessively and strives continually to adopt the latest fashions

Word Origin for fashionista

C20: from fashion + -ista as in Sandinista

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Word Origin and History for fashionista

by 1996, from fashion + -ista (see -ist). In the same sense were fashionist (1610s, alive as late as 1850); fashion-monger (1590s); fashion-fly (1868).