With about 90m people, it is the region's most populous country and still a cultural trendsetter in the Arab world.
Yet another property firm, the Lundberg Group, talks about having drag shows at its proposed Our Town developments.For the moment, the Palms is the trendsetter.
And last weekend even hardline communists paid fulsome tribute.Mr Agnelli was a trendsetter in trend-obsessed Italy.
Now the company is using its strength at home to go abroad.Although Japan is a technology trendsetter in many respects, e-commerce lags far behind the West.
"The government has taken our business from us," mourns the owner of an idle printing press.Neither tax collection nor technology is an area in which one would expect Latin America to be a global trendsetter.
Japan is now using the Korean model as inspiration: in what is perhaps the best evidence of its own waning power as a trendsetter, it has launched a $500m fund to invest in "Cool Japan".PSY, the rapper behind "Gangnam Style", was not part of the national strategy.
She recalls the anomalies of the time: newly wealthy women wearing mink coats at the fish markets; frequent power cuts in her family's flat, the poshest in a posh district.From this unpromising position South Korea managed to charge past Japan to become Asia's foremost trendsetter, and Ms Hong interviews superstars, chefs and cultural critics to discover why.
Warhol also made sculpture and many experimental films, which contribute greatly to his legacy as an innovator.The Warhol market is considered the bellwether of post-war and contemporary art for many reasons, including its size and range, its emblematic transactions and the artist's reputation as a trendsetter.
If Mexico is a trendsetter, the fund may well need more money.
KIM JONG IL, the North Korean dictator, is not normally a trendsetter.
Ozzie Nelson's youngest son, Rick, who pursued a career in country rock music after the show ended, was a trendsetter, sinking into debt in the early 1980s after an expensive divorce.By one measure the borrowing shock continued for 25 years: household debt peaked at 138% of disposable income in 2007.
