We made a big decision late last year because we think the tastemakers are getting younger and younger.
The tastemakers included radio DJs and producers, TV presenters and producers, newspaper critics, magazine and website editors and respected bloggers.
Like all the Tastemakers identified in this series, these ten individuals take big risks, weathering rejection if not outright ridicule.
The ultimate status is reserved for the well connected who skip lines and breeze in and out of venues and rub elbows with the tastemakers.
He ran through his past hits ("Gold Digger") and current chart-toppers ("Stronger"), whipping the crowd of tastemakers, fashionistas, and celebrities like Beyonce into a frenzy.
Both have lived out versions of the city's bootstrapping myth: arriving as ambitious young men, plunging into the demimonde and ascending to become tastemakers and toasts of the town.
Using awards, press mentions, earnings and other criteria, Forbes.com selected 10 tastemakers as the people who made the greatest contributions to their industry over the past year.
The disruptive start-up garnered the attention of tech tastemakers Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble last fall with its first iOS version, which enables anyone to communicate with others who speak a different language.
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Bowles said punk was the forerunner to grunge, which also made some tastemakers cringe when Marc Jacobs first put it on the runway in the early '90s.
With four separate covers featuring Jennifer Lopez, Taylor Swift, Zoe Saldana and Julianne Moore, The Hollywood Reporter's third annual Stylists Issue profiles the town's top tastemakers.
And her latest column for the Daily Beast is no different: In it, she sets out to expose the rampant sexism among fashion editors and tastemakers.
Along the way, the creators picked up endorsements from key religious tastemakers, including Joel Osteen.
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To choose our ten tastemakers in contemporary art, we tapped the minds of experts: auction house specialists, dealers, collectors, museum curators and even artists themselves.
As the name suggests, these perfect days are curated by renowned tastemakers and community members alike.
The collaborative taste signal from Pinterest is helping retailers get an early window into what consumers and tastemakers want to buy.
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Like tastemakers from Anna Wintour to Steve Jobs, Mr. Pollan is just trying to persuade the public to share his sense of excellence and, with it, his willingness to pay.
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Now in their third year, with 150, 000 unique visitors per month and a coffee-table book to their credit, the pair make money through producing advertorials, campaigns, sponsorships and casts from their band of 5, 000 tastemakers.
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