"industry icon" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a person or company that is highly respected and influential in a particular industry. Example: "Steve Jobs is considered an industry icon in the world of technology, having revolutionized the way we use and interact with computers."
Ms. Weldon said Ms. Byrd was an "adult industry icon".
Roy was a treasured friend, long-time business associate and industry icon.
The tech industry icon transformed Intel from a struggling memory chip maker into a microprocessor powerhouse.
John was a construction industry icon, legendary builder, mentor, friend, teacher, athlete, fierce competitor, jokester and renaissance man.
Air Supply were inducted into the Aria hall of fame and the founder of Mushroom records, Michael Gudinski, was recognised as an Aria industry icon.
In a buzz-generating introduction in February, the site Webcast live from Los Angeles the National American Hairdressing Awards, whose winners are industry icons.
At 14 she won a nationwide search to play the lead in The Man in the Moon and won immediate praise from revered US industry icons like Variety and the film critic Roger Ebert.
If not Vandeweghe, the wish list has predictably filled with familiar industry icons, but Jerry Colangelo, Donnie Walsh and even Jerry West strike me more as aging organizational angels, not the bold, creative hire going forward.
Her prominent place in the fashion bible's "The Real Lives of Models" issue, alongside industry icons such as Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell, is all but a guarantee of an eventual spot in the firmament of females known the world over by their first name alone.
To build it, Lundeen and Goldschlag enlisted Prototype Source, a California company that is one of the nation's leading makers of promotional vehicles, having produced such industry icons as the Hershey Kissmobile, the Yoo-hoo Stinkin' Summer Tour Garbage Truck, and the latest Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, complete with Mustard Splattered Walkway and Official Wiener Jingle Horn.
