"I'm one of those people who doesn't follow trends. I set them"
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The intent isn’t just vanity; it’s boundary-setting. In an industry that loves to frame young actresses as reactive to the machine - styled, marketed, molded - Zendaya claims authorship. “Doesn’t follow trends” is a refusal of the usual celebrity pipeline, where relevance is rented from designers, algorithms, and PR cycles. “I set them” reframes her as a producer of taste, not a consumer of it. Subtext: I’m not here to be chosen; I’m here to do the choosing.
Context does a lot of work. Zendaya’s public image has been built on a rare mix of mass accessibility and deliberate curation: red-carpet looks that read as storytelling, collaborations that feel strategic rather than desperate, and career moves that sidestep the child-star-to-tabloid arc. The line also taps into a broader shift: celebrity today isn’t only about being famous, it’s about being a brand with a point of view. In that economy, trendsetting is a claim to power - cultural, commercial, and personal - and the quote functions as a neat, repeatable mission statement for it.
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"I'm one of those people who doesn't follow trends. I set them." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-one-of-those-people-who-doesnt-follow-trends-i-184669/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.






