Forget Madonna — Huffington is the master of reinvention

SHE’S probably the most successful neophiliac ever.

She has no serious competition, either in history or in the present. Neophiliacs being people who have an affinity for novelty, who are turned on by anything that’s new and who spot emerging trends before they trend. They ride one wave and then leap to the next without a backward glance.

Arianna Huffington has no equal in this department. Madonna has a reputation for personal reinvention, but anxiously hanging on to celeb status is not the same as neophilism.