No scientist will miss it, except as a statistic." Diana Vreeland, a flamboyant trendsetter on both sides of the Atlantic, lived with drama and imagination at the place where fashion, art and publishing meet.
But even if the car with the new engine doesn't sell well, the new engine might rejuvenate Honda's image as a trendsetter.
THE FORD pay deal, sealed late on Thursday, is no longer the trendsetter for collective bargainers that it once was. Ford has been rather more generous than most manufacturing companies over the past few years.
A handful are thinking along the same lines, including Sony, a perennial Japanese management trendsetter.
The 104-year-old Miller & Rhoads department store chain, once a pricey trendsetter, sat like a rack of last season's fashions as officials sought buyers for the failing operation.
"I see myself as a trendsetter," Wasley said. "You're not going to get smashed drinking coffee.
It's unclear whether the turmoil at Johns Hopkins, so often a trendsetter, is also a harbinger of more crises to come.