The Dazed 100 has returned! Each year, Dazed teams across the globe curate a selection of the most exciting emerging creatives, and this time our Dazed Club community joined in by nominating the trailblazers on their radar who are shaping youth culture. Scroll on to meet a new wave of global change-makers, including rising names from the US, Asia and the MENA region.

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Music Aix-en-Provence

Cannelle

Music Aix-en-Provence

Cannelle is a multi-hypenate artist who began her career by sharing her self-directed shoots online. Ever-restless in her creative output, Cannelle is now pursuing music too, with the recent release of her debut single, “Lucky”, and a long-awaited mixtape set to drop in early 2026.

@cannelle

Music Aix-en-Provence

Cannelle

@cannelle

Art and Photography London

Maite De Orbe

Art and Photography London

Maite de Orbe (MOMOSTAR) is a Spanish photographer and director exploring the intersection of life, fantasy and documentary. Recent work includes a solo show at London’s Miłośc Gallery, the debut book The Infamous Spaghetti Sisters, and several films.

@maitedeorbe

Art and Photography London

Maite De Orbe

@maitedeorbe

Changemaker MENA

Everything is Political

Changemaker MENA

Céline Semaan is a Lebanese artist, writer, and designer who explores the intersections of ancestral memory, climate justice, and collective liberation. The founder of the media platform Everything is Political, 2024 also saw the publication of her memoir, A Woman is a School.

@everything_political

Changemaker MENA

Everything is Political

@everything_political

Sport Taiwan

Yi Tung Chen

Sport Taiwan

The fencer Chen Yi-tung represented Taiwan at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. The first male Taiwanese fencer to qualify for the Olympics in 36 years, Yi-tung is also studying graphic design, and using his skills to design his own fencing equipment and apparel.

@antonio__chen

Sport Taiwan

Yi Tung Chen

@antonio__chen

Entertainment MENA

The IASC

Entertainment MENA

The IASC is a music collective founded in Cairo in 2024 by Lana (Conjuror of the Vibes), Aly (the stALIon), and Noor (femaledjkhaled). Crafting parties which centre community, the IASC has already had sold-out shows across Cairo, London, Dubai and Gouna.

@intlasc

Entertainment MENA

The IASC

@intlasc

Beauty New York

Saint Laurahs

Beauty New York

Saint Laurahs is a 24-year-old self-taught makeup artist who has worked with artists like Doechii, JT and Lil Uzi. With a background in painting, creative direction and prop design, Laurah’s style is a mix of surrealism, industrial and “vixen”, specialising in SFX, editorial and soft glam.

Photography Hope Glassel

@saintlaurahs

Beauty New York

Saint Laurahs

@saintlaurahs

Art and Photography Connecticut

Mab

Art and Photography Connecticut

To Mab, a multidisciplinary airbrush artist from Connecticut, everything from denim to skin is a canvas. Her deeply personal practice is rooted in transformation. Mab’s first solo exhibition, Aerosol Couture, fused art, Blackness and bold self-expression.

Photography Myles Loftin

@mablacas

Art and Photography Connecticut

Mab

@mablacas

Beauty New York

Nadia Tayeh

Beauty New York

Brooklyn-born Nadia Tayeh is the celebrity makeup artist behind the looks of stars such as Bella Hadid, Imaan Hammam and Jodie Turner-Smith. Tayeh approaches beauty through a cinematic and story-driven lens, blending art, culture and narrative to create looks that transcend trends.

Photography Dean Majd

@tuddynana

Beauty New York

Nadia Tayeh

@tuddynana

Art and Photography New York

Maxwell Vice

Art and Photography New York

Maxwell Vice, a New York-based creative, DJ, movement director and fashion critic, is a fashion photographer by day and club manager by night. Described as the “Mayor of Bushwick”, they are a prominent figure in the Bushwick nightlife scene and a vocal advocate for the QTPOC community.

Photography Maxwell Vice

@maxwellvice

Art and Photography New York

Maxwell Vice

@maxwellvice

Music USA

KATSEYE

Music USA

Global girl group KATSEYE, made up of Daniela, Lara, Manon, Megan, Sophia and Yoonchae, has established itself as one of the most exciting new voices in pop music. Trained within the K-pop sphere, the group has garnered billions of Spotify streams, thanks to their debut EP, Beautiful Chaos.

Photography Julian Song

@katseyeworld

Music USA

KATSEYE

@katseyeworld

Changemaker Los Angeles

Vivian Jenna Wilson

Changemaker Los Angeles

Vivian Jenna Wilson is a model, creator and cultural voice. A previous Dazed cover star, Wilson has worked with brands like Casablanca and Wildfang. When she’s not modelling and streaming, she’s advocating for causes like The Trevor Project, a non-profit dedicated to protecting LGBTQ+ youth.

Photography John Panichella

@vivllainous

Changemaker Los Angeles

Vivian Jenna Wilson

@vivllainous

The Dazed 100 is back for 2025

This year, we’re back with four Dazed 100 lists across four regions – and for the first time ever, we invited our audience to help us choose the trailblazing listees

Sport Los Angeles

Alyssa Thompson

Sport Los Angeles

Alyssa Thompson is a professional soccer player for the US Women’s National Team and Chelsea in the Women’s Super League. In 2023, she made history when Angel City named her their top pick in the National Women’s Soccer League draft, making her the first high school player drafted at number one.

Photography Chelsea FC Women official social media accounts

@alyssthomp

Sport Los Angeles

Alyssa Thompson

@alyssthomp

Entertainment Indianapolis

Chase Infiniti

Entertainment Indianapolis

Chase Infiniti is an actress best known for her breakout role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. She’s set to star in Hulu’s The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, and Niki Byrne’s upcoming coming-of-age drama, The Julia Set.

Photography Thurstan Redding

Entertainment Indianapolis

Chase Infiniti

Sport London

Myles Lewis-Skelly

Sport London

Having played for Arsenal FC's first team since 2024, 2025 saw footballer Myles Lewis-Skelly start for the England national team too. Lewis-Skelly first joined the Arsenal Academy as an eight year old, balancing his rise in the club alongside his education.

@myleslewisskelly

Sport London

Myles Lewis-Skelly

@myleslewisskelly

Sport

Marwa Bouzayani

Sport

Marwa Bouzayani is a Tunisian steeplechaser who has been competing professionally since 2013. A devout Muslim, Bouzayani credits her faith with helping her endure as an athlete, and her career milestones have included competing in the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, and Paris in 2024.

@bouzayani_marwa

Sport

Marwa Bouzayani

@bouzayani_marwa

Fashion MENA

Anastasia Vartanian

Fashion MENA

Anastasia Vartanian is a London-based fashion commentator and journalist who started her blog, Fat Anna Wintour, in 2018. Having completed her Fashion Journalism studies at Central Saint Martins last year, she is now the fashion columnist at Polyester Zine, and a freelance writer for other titles.

@fatannawintour

Fashion MENA

Anastasia Vartanian

@fatannawintour

Sport MENA

Baes FC

Sport MENA

Baes FC is a London-based grassroots football team for women, trans and non-binary people of Asian heritage. Formed in 2022 as an inclusive celebration of the sport, this year saw the team feature in a campaign for Nike and Schuh.

@baes_fc

Sport MENA

Baes FC

@baes_fc

Art and Photography Tokyo

Yuka Hirac

Art and Photography Tokyo

Yuka Hirac is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans makeup, photography and bookmaking. This summer saw the publication of jajaja…瞑想散歩 (meditation walk), a zine in which Hirac repurposes internet aesthetics to explore memory, nostalgia and the passage of a life.

@yuka_hirac

Art and Photography Tokyo

Yuka Hirac

@yuka_hirac

Art and Photography London

Adam Lin

Art and Photography London

Originally from Taichung, Taiwan, and now based in London, Adam Lin is a photographer who is interested in exploring intimacy. His recent series “Sonder” saw him consider how masculinity intersects with queer identity by photographing the homes of ten families across London and Taichung.

@adamlinhc

Art and Photography London

Adam Lin

@adamlinhc

Art and Photography Ulaanbaatar

Narantsetseg Khuyagaa

Art and Photography Ulaanbaatar

Narantsetseg Khuyagaa is a Mongolian photographer who is drawn to portraying the complexities of identity and femininity. For her photo series This Way Up, she documented modern-day female practitioners of the long Mongolian tradition of contortion.

@narantsetsegkhuyagaa

Art and Photography Ulaanbaatar

Narantsetseg Khuyagaa

@narantsetsegkhuyagaa

Art and Photography Beijing

Huang Heshan

Art and Photography Beijing

Huang Heshan is a digital artist who interrogates life in contemporary China through vivid architectural visuals. In projects including “Wild Design”, “Fake IKEA”, and “Too Rich City”, Huang examines the transformations brought about by China’s rapid urbanisation and digitisation.

@toorichcity_hhs

Art and Photography Beijing

Huang Heshan

@toorichcity_hhs

Fashion Tokyo

Hana Yagi

Fashion Tokyo

The Tokyo-based emerging dress designer and artist Hana Yagi reimagines discarded kimonos and wedding dresses. With an inherently sustainable approach, through her creations Yagi is interested in exploring the constraints of patriarchal society through the language of repair.

@_hanayagi

Fashion Tokyo

Hana Yagi

@_hanayagi

Sport New York and Seoul

Younjae Park

Sport New York and Seoul

This year saw Younjae Park become the first Korean male dancer to win the prestigious Prix de Lausanne, aged just 16. In autumn Park entered the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre, to continue his training with some of the world’s leading dancers.

@younjae_park

Sport New York and Seoul

Younjae Park

@younjae_park

Changemaker Bangkok

Plaifah Kyoka Shodladd

Changemaker Bangkok

Based in Thailand and Japan, Plaifah Kyoka Shodladd represents a new generation of Thai queer activists. As well as co-founding the Asian Pride Alliance, they served as a committee member in discussions on Thailand’s Marriage Equality Bill which became law in January 2025.

@ky.oka

Changemaker Bangkok

Plaifah Kyoka Shodladd

@ky.oka

Changemaker New York and Hong Kong

Celina Chien

Changemaker New York and Hong Kong

The ecologist, photojournalist, and artist Celina Chien seeks to redefine the relationship between humanity and nature. With her creative impact agency Overstories, Chien uses imagery and storytelling to envision a world in which nature is the protagonist.

@celinaxchien

Changemaker New York and Hong Kong

Celina Chien

@celinaxchien

Changemaker New York

Mahmoud Khalil

Changemaker New York

Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian graduate of Columbia University, where he helped lead the student movement opposing Israel’s war on Gaza. In March 2025, Khahlil, who's since been released, was unlawfully arrested by the Trump administration, who attempted to deport him in retaliation for his lawful advocacy for Palestinian rights.

Photography Dean Majd

@justice4mahmoud

Changemaker New York

Mahmoud Khalil

@justice4mahmoud

Art and Photography New York

Sophia Wilson

Art and Photography New York

At just 25 years old, photographer Sophia Wilson has been building her vibrant portfolio for a decade, exploring themes such as coming of age and Black womanhood. She’s currently working on her debut photo book, #GRWM, and has shot the likes of Addison Rae, FKA Twigs and Alex Consani.

Photography Tyra Booker

@phiawilson

Art and Photography New York

Sophia Wilson

@phiawilson

Art and Photography New York

Maya Man

Art and Photography New York

Working across software, generative AI and installation, Maya Man is an artist whose work explores contemporary identity culture on the internet. Man, who was the first artist commissioned for the Whitney Museum’s internet art program On The Hour, has exhibited and performed internationally.

Photography Charlotte Ercoli

@mayaontheinternet

Art and Photography New York

Maya Man

@mayaontheinternet

Music Delaware

Cortisa Star

Music Delaware

Cortisa Star is a Delaware-born rapper and model blending hyperpop and drill influences with bold, experimental sounds. In 2025, she released tracks like “Cortisa Crump”, “Bad ASF”, and her debut EP E.M.O. (Evil Motion Overload). She also made her runway debut at Miu Miu’s AW25 show at Paris Fashion Week.

Photography Ben Taylor

@cortisastar

Music Delaware

Cortisa Star

@cortisastar

Music Los Angeles

Warren Hue

Music Los Angeles

Musician Warren Hue first started uploading his self-produced tracks to YouTube when he was just 16 years old. His 2018 breakthrough single “YELLOW” led to him signing with label 88rising in 2020. Since, he’s appeared at Coachella and his music has featured in Marvel’s 2021 Shang-Chi.

@warrenhue

Music Los Angeles

Warren Hue

@warrenhue

Fashion MENA

Charlize Miradi

Fashion MENA

Charlize Miradi is a London-based Iranian-British artist and aspiring sustainable fashion designer. Crafting an aesthetic that’s informed by her Iranian heritage as much as life in contemporary London, in her work Miradi seeks to disrupt beauty standards and cultural norms.

@barbiesclutter

Fashion MENA

Charlize Miradi

@barbiesclutter

Fashion MENA

Ayham Hassan

Fashion MENA

Ayham Hassan is a fashion designer based between London and Ramallah whose work is deeply informed by his experiences growing up in the West Bank. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, in Hassan’s work he seeks to preserve Palestinian craft traditions and elevate the country’s fashion globally.

@ayham_hassan_99

Fashion MENA

Ayham Hassan

@ayham_hassan_99

Entertainment MENA

Dalia Al-Dujaili

Entertainment MENA

Dalia Al-Dujaili is a British-born Iraqi writer, cultural programmer, and the online editor of The British Journal of Photography. Having written extensively on the arts, this year also saw the publication of her book, Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration.

@dalia.aldu

Entertainment MENA

Dalia Al-Dujaili

@dalia.aldu

Art and Photography MENA

Abdulaziz Al-Hosni

Art and Photography MENA

Originally from Al-Khaboura, Abdulaziz Al-Hosni is an Omani visual artist who is now based in Muscat. With a practice that spans photography, film, and mixed media, in his work he explores themes of identity, love, masculinity and tradition.

@azizzlll

Art and Photography MENA

Abdulaziz Al-Hosni

@azizzlll

Art and Photography MENA

Miramar Al Nayyar

Art and Photography MENA

Miramar Al Nayyar is a self-taught Iraqi artist whose work is informed by geological formations and desert landscapes. With a practice that spans painting and material experimentation, she has exhibited both regionally and internationally, and received the Prince Claus Seed Award.

@miramar_alnayyar

Art and Photography MENA

Miramar Al Nayyar

@miramar_alnayyar

Fashion London

Mario Serrano Puche

Fashion London

Mario Serrano Puche is a Columbian designer who merges fashion and architecture. Founded in 2023, his collaborative platform Body Amplification Devices fuses 3D printing and algorithmic modelling with analogue techniques to help emerging designers develop experimental footwear.

@marioserranopuche

Fashion London

Mario Serrano Puche

@marioserranopuche

Changemaker London

Karlie Marx

Changemaker London

DJ and musician Karlie Marx is a rising star of London’s club scene. Her party PLASTYK is renowned for its raucous energy, and the fact that it’s one of the city’s first lesbian nights run by a trans woman. Currently Marx is working on a debut electronic project.

@karliemarx.wav

Changemaker London

Karlie Marx

@karliemarx.wav

Fashion Paris

Myah Hasbany

Fashion Paris

Myah Hasbany is a fashion designer from Texas whose Central Saint Martins graduate collection won the L’Oréal Professionnel award. They have also collaborated with Erykah Badu on various creative projects, including the viral “booty” suit worn by Badu at the Billboard awards earlier this year.

@myahhasbany

Fashion Paris

Myah Hasbany

@myahhasbany

Music London

fat-lïp

Music London

fat-lïp is a multidisciplinary DJ, saxophonist, researcher and soundscape artist of Grenadian and Jamaican heritage. Exploring different perspectives on Black diasporic identity through music, they co-founded the radio show VEXED, and are a member of the DJ collective HARDFOOD.

@fat_lip_____

Music London

fat-lïp

@fat_lip_____

Fashion New York

Annie Lian

Fashion New York

The designer Annie Lian foregrounds sustainability in her practice. To make her pieces, which she describes as ‘wearable art’, Lian employs techniques including patchwork, handpainting, and cutting up existing garments, to reimagine existing clothes as something totally distinct.

@anniielian

Fashion New York

Annie Lian

@anniielian

Art and Photography Cairo

Salma Abdelbaset

Art and Photography Cairo

Salma Abdelbaset is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and sustainable energy engineer. Self-taught and still creating mostly from their home, her practice centers around deconstructing discarded objects in order to reimagine them as wearable face and body sculptures.

@salmamohamedbaset

Art and Photography Cairo

Salma Abdelbaset

@salmamohamedbaset

Art and Photography Johannesburg

Peyton Joe Basson

Art and Photography Johannesburg

First scouted as a model, today Peyton Joe Basson also works as a creative director, photographer and stylist. Creating cinematic imagery, they have collaborated with musicians like Davido, Desire Marea, and Uncle Waffles, and worked with brands including Puma, Playboy, Ntwana, and Nike.

@peytonjoebasson

Art and Photography Johannesburg

Peyton Joe Basson

@peytonjoebasson

Art and Photography Tokyo

IFUCKTOKYO

Art and Photography Tokyo

IFUCKTOKYO is the anonymous photographer capturing after-hours Tokyo. Shooting on film with a Contax G1, she captures scenes from the city’s frenetic nightlife, subcultures and youth culture, as well as visiting artists including Nia Archives and Fontaines D.C.

@ifucktokyo

Art and Photography Tokyo

IFUCKTOKYO

@ifucktokyo

Music Buenos Aires

EQ

Music Buenos Aires

EQ is a Buenos Aires-based electronic outfit comprised of the musicians and creatives Estratosfera and Qiri. Both respected artists in their own right, in only their first year together their debut single “Boytoy” and subsequent EP “EQ” have earned them a devoted following.

@eq__connection

Music Buenos Aires

EQ

@eq__connection

Beauty Stockholm

Haisam Mohammed

Beauty Stockholm

Haisam Mohammed is a perfumier who founded the perfume house Unifrom™ in 2020. A move away from euro-centric fragrances, the scents of Unifrom™ are inspired by the smells – incense burning, spices cooking – of the high-rises of Sweden’s more diverse neighbourhoods.

@haisam._

Beauty Stockholm

Haisam Mohammed

@haisam._

Art and Photography London

SMUT Press

Art and Photography London

SMUT Press is a London-based queer publishing project and party platform founded in 2022 by the Irish artists Jack Scollard and Jordan Hearns. Existing at the intersection of print and nightlife, SMUT champions queer artists through a series of publications and raves.

@smut_press

Art and Photography London

SMUT Press

@smut_press

Art and Photography Kyiv

Kostiantyn Bibliuk

Art and Photography Kyiv

Kostiantyn Bibliuk is a multidisciplinary creative based in Kyiv whose work spans photography, experimental set design and constructed spatial environments. Through exploring and combining these different elements, Bibliuk creates distinctive images which straddle art and fashion.

@kostia.ntyn

Art and Photography Kyiv

Kostiantyn Bibliuk

@kostia.ntyn

Art and Photography Gaza

Malak Mattar

Art and Photography Gaza

Malak Mattar is an artist and author from Gaza whose 2024 painting “No Words” has already become one of the definitive artistic responses to Israel’s genocide. This year saw her become the first Palestinian artist to hold a solo exhibition, Falasteen, at Central Saint Martins.

@malakmattarart

Art and Photography Gaza

Malak Mattar

@malakmattarart

Art and Photography Ho Chi Minh

Yatender

Art and Photography Ho Chi Minh

Yatender, who is also known as Ao Kim Ngân, is a Vietnamese photographer who works primarily in analogue. With a practice that centers around self-portraits, in Yatender’s arresting images she explores themes of memory, vulnerability and identity.

@yaonthemoon

Art and Photography Ho Chi Minh

Yatender

@yaonthemoon

Art and Photography London

LAUZZA

Art and Photography London

LAUZZA is an emerging music platform which premieres exclusive videos and short-form content through its YouTube channel. Helmed by its anonymous director, LAUZZA seeks to showcase boundary-pushing new music, including hosting videos from Pink Pantheress, Nia Archives, Jim Legxacy, and Niko B.

@@LAUZZA

Art and Photography London

LAUZZA

@@LAUZZA

Art and Photography London

Bernice Mulenga

Art and Photography London

Bernice Mulenga is a British-Congolese artist and photographer who documents, interrogates and archives the experiences of Black queer global and local communities. Their work has been exhibited extensively internationally, and in 2024 they were awarded the CIRCA Prize.

@bernice.mulenga

Art and Photography London

Bernice Mulenga

@bernice.mulenga

Art and Photography Warsaw

Wera Nowak

Art and Photography Warsaw

Wera Nowak is an artist and photographer who blends documentary and conceptual approaches to explore adolescence and shifting identity. This year proved to be a breakthrough period for Nowak, including capturing the musician Lorde for Dazed’s Autumn issue.

@weanowak

Art and Photography Warsaw

Wera Nowak

@weanowak

Music Rio de Janeiro

Oruam

Music Rio de Janeiro

The rapper Oruam has skyrocketed Brazilian music with his low-slung trap and uptempo baile funk. A skilled provocateur, in February this year Oruam drifted his car in front of police officers and was sent straight to prison; the next day he released his debut album, Liberdade (Freedom).

@oruam

Music Rio de Janeiro

Oruam

@oruam

Music Copenhagen

dj g2g

Music Copenhagen

dj g2g is a Danish-Uruguayan artist, producer, and DJ. Moving between music, fashion, and performance, their genre-defying sound combines hardstyle, cumbia, deconstructed club, nightcore, jersey, and dubstep to form a high energy, unpredictable sonic experience.

@djg2g

Music Copenhagen

dj g2g

@djg2g

Music Seoul

Seoul Community Radio

Music Seoul

Seoul Community Radio (SCR) is a dynamic platform at the forefront of South Korea’s underground music scene. Established in 2016, SCR has become an institution: a vital space for local talent to showcase new electronic music and to welcome international artists visiting the city.

@scr_radio

Music Seoul

Seoul Community Radio

@scr_radio

Music New York

Geese

Music New York

Formed in 2016, Geese is a New-York based band made up of Cameron Winter, Emily Green, Max Bassin, and Dominic DiGesu. Ever-restless, this year saw the release of the band’s third album, Getting Killed, an esoteric, experimental offering which underlines Geese’s commitment to evolving.

@geesebandnyc

Music New York

Geese

@geesebandnyc

Music Dublin

Bricknasty

Music Dublin

Irish hip hop collective Bricknasty’s music draws on their frontman Fatboy’s experiences growing up in Dublin’s deprived Ballymun estate. Autumn saw their third release, Black’s Law, a riotous mixtape chronicling life in contemporary Dublin under the ever-present threat of gentrification.

@bricknxsty

Music Dublin

Bricknasty

@bricknxsty

Music Helsinki

Aino Morko

Music Helsinki

Aino Morko, or pehmoaino, is a musician and creative with an ethereal aesthetic and sound. Her debut 2022 EP, kaukana kotoa, and subsequent album, 2024’s soittorasia, both reached number one on the official Finnish charts, and together earned them four Finnish Grammys.

@pehmoaino

Music Helsinki

Aino Morko

@pehmoaino

Music New York

LITA

Music New York

Also known as Karla Vinuezea, LITA is an Ecuadorian-American artist, DJ, and creative technologist. For Sonic Liberation Devices, their ongoing series, LITA invents musical instruments that double as technologies of liberation, including The Palestine Drum Liberator.

@lita.systems

Music New York

LITA

@lita.systems

Music Lagos

Zinoleesky

Music Lagos

Zinoleesky, or Oniyide Azeez as he is also known, is a Lagosian street pop pioneer whose music represents life for a new generation of Nigerians. April saw the release of Gen Z, his infectious latest album which merges local and international influences for an energetic sound that’s entirely his own.

@zinoleesky

Music Lagos

Zinoleesky

@zinoleesky

Music Paris

Theodora

Music Paris

Theodora is a boundary-pushing artist whose breakthrough 2024 track “KONGOLESE SOUS BBL” became an anthem for body positivity. Blending the sounds of Caribbean bouyon, hip hop, hyperpop, and more, Theodora is equally known for her aesthetic and bold music videos.

@theodorabosslady

Music Paris

Theodora

@theodorabosslady

Music Santiago

AKRIILA

Music Santiago

Also known as Fernanda Sepúlveda Tapia, AKRIILA’s fastpaced, introspective rap lyrics have established her as one of the most exciting artists to come out of Chile in recent years. This year saw the release of Epistolares+, an emotional expansion of 2024’s Epistolares album.

@akribb

Music Santiago

AKRIILA

@akribb

Music

EsDeeKid

Music

Masked Liverpudlian rapper EsDeeKid had a breakthrough year, with the June release of his album Rebel as well as a debut European tour. In the span of just a few months he’s skyrocketed from one to five million monthly listeners on Spotify, and fans include Demna Gvasalia.

Photography by Aiyush Pachnanda.

@esdeekid

Music

EsDeeKid

@esdeekid

Entertainment Tbilisi

Bassiani

Entertainment Tbilisi

Founded by Tato Getia, Zviad Gelbakhiani, and Naja Orashvili, for over a decade the nightclub Bassiani has been a vital space for Tbilisi’s queer community and beyond. Located underneath the city’s Dinamo Arena sports centre, Bassiani’s main room is an empty 50m Olympic sized swimming pool.

Photography by Barclay Bram.

@basssiani

Entertainment Tbilisi

Bassiani

@basssiani

Music London

fakemink

Music London

Enigmatic, prolific and shapeshifting, musician fakemink is oft-labelled the hottest name in underground UK rap. Writing, recording, art directing and releasing everything himself through his project EtnaVeraVela, since his 2023 debut album London’s Saviour he’s gone from strength to strength.

@fakemink

Music London

fakemink

@fakemink

Music London

Sekou

Music London

Rising musician Sekou was the youngest-ever nominee for the BRIT’s Rising Star award in 2024. This autumn saw the release of his new mixtape, “In A World We Don’t Belong Pt. 1”, further solidifying his ability to reimagine nostalgic, familiar melodies as something contemporary.

@sekou

Music London

Sekou

@sekou

Beauty New York & Paris

Matt Benns

Beauty New York & Paris

Originally from New Zealand, Matt Benns is the hairstylist helping define pop culture. As well as styling Charli xcx’s hair for the Brat tour and film The Moment, Benns has collaborated with Nadia Lee Cohen, given Kim Kardashian a buzzcut, and worked with Kelela for her 2023 album rollout.

@mattbenns

Beauty New York & Paris

Matt Benns

@mattbenns

Beauty Beirut

Remah Jammoul

Beauty Beirut

Recent film graduate Remah Jammoul brings a cinematic aspect to his work as a hairstylist. Often evoking past eras or subcultures, Jammoul’s experience of working with wigs informs his signature off-kilter, sculptural styles which have featured in Dazed MENA, as well as Vogue Arabia, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ.

@remahjammoul

Beauty Beirut

Remah Jammoul

@remahjammoul

Beauty New York

Ruby Howes

Beauty New York

Originally from Reading, Ruby Howes is a hairstylist whose work spans editorial, commercial and film. With creations that tend to have a sculptural quality, Howe considers hair a means of creating a character, and telling a wider story.

@rubyhowes

Beauty New York

Ruby Howes

@rubyhowes

Beauty Los Angeles

Malcolm Marquez

Beauty Los Angeles

Refusing to be confined to strictly styling hair, Malcolm Marquez’s work extends beyond heads to wearable and sculptural pieces. Working primarily in music and fashion, Marquez has created looks for album covers and magazines alike, and recently took part in the hair show Black Hair Reimagined.

@malcolm.marquez

Beauty Los Angeles

Malcolm Marquez

@malcolm.marquez

Beauty Rio de Janeiro

Peterson Oliveira de Santos

Beauty Rio de Janeiro

Peterson Oliveira de Santos, who is also known locally as Maquininha du Corte, runs a barbershop in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's largest favela. Drawing people from all over the neighbourhood for du Corte’s distinctive carioca cuts, the shop is a space of community.

@maquininhaducorte

Beauty Rio de Janeiro

Peterson Oliveira de Santos

@maquininhaducorte

Beauty London

Maame Efuwa Aikins

Beauty London

Maame Efuwa Aikins is a nail artist and multi-disciplinary creative who is based between London, Tokyo and New York. Considering nail art more a means of body modification, her work is informed by her background in a Japanese-Ghanaian household, and her later time in London.

@flypsychicgenius

Beauty London

Maame Efuwa Aikins

@flypsychicgenius

Beauty London

Nikki Panic

Beauty London

Nikki Panic is a self-taught nail artist from Switzerland who began her career while completing her nursing degree. With a versatile, playful approach, she uses techniques and effects including hand painting, 3D sculpting, crystals, and chrome finishes to bring her creations to life.

@nikkipanic

Beauty London

Nikki Panic

@nikkipanic

Beauty Beijing

Jewel Yang

Beauty Beijing

Jewel Yang is a Beijing-born makeup artist and face-ware designer of Kam heritage, who draws on mythology to create her futuristic looks. Influenced by Chinese traditional art, Yang created Amelia Gray’s makeup for the cover of Dazed’s New Gen issue.

@a1jewel0310

Beauty Beijing

Jewel Yang

@a1jewel0310

Beauty Madrid & Berlin

Hugo Trix

Beauty Madrid & Berlin

Hugo Trix is a makeup artist and body painter whose looks merge grunge with glamour. Recent collaborations include work for Adela Jergova, Yves Tumor, Ralphie Choo, Sita Abellán, and Toccororo, and with brands such as Dsquared2, Evade House and Sia Arnika, among others.

@hugo.trixx

Beauty Madrid & Berlin

Hugo Trix

@hugo.trixx

Beauty Paris

Loïse Hulin

Beauty Paris

Also known as Lolox, Loïse Hulin is a self-taught SFX artist who experiments with prosthetic skin and playful trompe-l'oeil creations. Valuing collaboration, her work with the designer Rohan Mirza – including her silicone ‘Big Foot Pants’ – has helped define her practice.

@loloxloloxloloxx

Beauty Paris

Loïse Hulin

@loloxloloxloloxx

Fashion New York

Emily Costantino

Fashion New York

The costume designer and stylist Emily Costantino works at the intersection of film and fashion. Over the past few years she has created the character-defining looks of films including 2022’s Funny Pages, 2025’s Sorry, Baby and 2025’s Magic Farm.

@emerald_costantino

Fashion New York

Emily Costantino

@emerald_costantino

Fashion Paris

Awar Odhiang

Fashion Paris

Awar Odhiang is a Canadian model of South Sudanese descent who is already becoming a major presence in the industry. Discovered by her now-agent while working at Old Navy in Calgary as a teenager, she walked in over 30 shows in the Spring/Summer 2025 season.

@awarodhiang

Fashion Paris

Awar Odhiang

@awarodhiang

Fashion Athens

Evdokia Labropoulou

Fashion Athens

Evdokia Labropoulou is a model and emerging creative director from Athens. Seeking to destabilise how underrepresented bodies are portrayed in fashion, she has modelled for campaigns for the likes of Heaven by Marc Jacobs, Di Petsa and Nike, and been profiled in Vogue Greece.

@acabimbo

Fashion Athens

Evdokia Labropoulou

@acabimbo

Fashion Paris

Loli Bahia

Fashion Paris

The model and actress Loli Bahia made her runway debut for Louis Vuitton aged just 17, walking 65 shows in her first year alone. Scouted while studying music at the Lyon Conservatoire, Bahia is a multifaceted talent who looks set to rise in the fashion world and beyond it.

@lolibahiaa

Fashion Paris

Loli Bahia

@lolibahiaa

Fashion London

Oscar Ouyang

Fashion London

Oscar Ouyang is a designer from Beijing whose eponymous label is known for its innovative knitwear creations and gender neutral approach. This year saw the brand’s London Fashion Week debut with NEWGEN, with the pieces already stocked at Dover Street Market.

@oscarouyang.official

Fashion London

Oscar Ouyang

@oscarouyang.official

Fashion London & Kingston

Francesca Lake

Fashion London & Kingston

Francesca Lake is a fashion designer and multidisciplinary artist who was raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Drawing on a background in academia, the Central Saint Martins MA fashion graduate seeks to capture the contradictions and personality of her Jamaican heritage through her work.

@francescalakeofficial

Fashion London & Kingston

Francesca Lake

@francescalakeofficial

Fashion London

Joshua Ewusie

Fashion London

For his label E.W.USIE, the fashion designer Joshua Ewusie draws on his Ghanaian heritage to create artisanal leather pieces. The CHANEL x British Fashion scholar on his MA at Central Saint Martins, recently Ewusie was also announced as part of NEWGEN’s new lineup.

@e.w.usie

Fashion London

Joshua Ewusie

@e.w.usie

Fashion London

Alessia Golfetto

Fashion London

Lagos-born creative Alessia Golfetto is transforming plus-size fashion. A former Contributing Curve Editor at Cosmopolitan, Golfetto is quickly becoming known for her experimental approach to styling and her punkish attitude to the broader fashion industry.

@alessiagolfetto

Fashion London

Alessia Golfetto

@alessiagolfetto

Fashion London

Lucila Safdie

Fashion London

Lucila Safdie is an Argentinian fashion designer concerned with femininity and sexuality. Drawing inspiration from literature and film, previous Safdie collections have explored girlhood and melancholy through a cinematic lens, with influences including The Bell Jar and Sofia Coppola’s films.

@lucilasafdie

Fashion London

Lucila Safdie

@lucilasafdie

Fashion London

Gina Corrieri

Fashion London

The designer Gina Corrieri’s practice centers around reimagining secondhand, vintage, and deadstock garments. Conceptually, Corrieri also draws on the inspiration of her friends, club culture and her own Caribbean, Italian and English heritage to make her original pieces.

@ginacorrieri_

Fashion London

Gina Corrieri

@ginacorrieri_

Sport Dijon

Kaylia Nemour

Sport Dijon

Kaylia Nemour is a rising artistic gymnast of dual French and Algerian nationality. Overcoming persistent Osteochondritis-related difficulties to compete in the 2024 Olympics, Nemour became the first person from the African continent to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics.

@kaylianemour

Sport Dijon

Kaylia Nemour

@kaylianemour

Sport Kampala

Gose Gerald

Sport Kampala

Gose Gerald is the founder of the Uganda Skateboard Society, a grassroots movement dedicated to championing the country’s skateboarding community. As well as his work building skateparks and fostering local skate culture, Gerald is also the head coach for the Ugandan Olympic skateboarding team.

@gose_gerald

Sport Kampala

Gose Gerald

@gose_gerald

Sport Storrs, Connecticut

Jana El Alfy

Sport Storrs, Connecticut

Jana El Alfy is an Egyptian-born basketball player who plays for the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team. The university’s first player from Egypt, El Alfy aspires to popularise basketball in Africa and the Middle East, especially with young girls.

@Jana El Alfy

Sport Storrs, Connecticut

Jana El Alfy

@Jana El Alfy

Sport

Michelle Agyemang

Sport

Michelle Agyemang is a footballer who plays for Brighton & Hove Albion, on loan from Arsenal, as well as the England national team. This year marked her debut with the Lionesses, and she played a key part of the squad who won the EURO 2025 title in Switzerland in July.

Photography by Harriet Lander

@michelleagyemangg

Sport

Michelle Agyemang

@michelleagyemangg

Changemaker Gaza

Healing Our Homeland

Changemaker Gaza

Healing Our Homeland is a liberation movement led by Palestinian women from Gaza, founded in 2016 by the lawyer Reem Elkhaldi. Their work includes providing mutual aid to Palestinian families, running educational programmes across the Gaza Strip, and building global solidarity.

@Healing.our.Homeland

Changemaker Gaza

Healing Our Homeland

@Healing.our.Homeland

Changemaker New York

Naley

Changemaker New York

Naley is a writer, filmmaker, and content creator who runs NaleybyNature, a multimedia platform which seeks to amplify underrepresented voices. Particularly drawn to reporting on global oppression, she has provided vital coverage of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

@naleybynature

Changemaker New York

Naley

@naleybynature

Changemaker New York

Maia Villalba

Changemaker New York

Early childhood educator, cultural worker, and community organiser Maia Villalba was born and raised in New York’s Chinatown. Forthcoming projects include their debut book, Wretched Women, which will be published by Iskra Books in the autumn of 2026.

@maiaaaiaaa

Changemaker New York

Maia Villalba

@maiaaaiaaa

Changemaker London

Aria Shahrokhshahi

Changemaker London

Aria Shahrokhshahi is a British-Iranian photographer and artist whose practice has a strong documentary focus. Next year will see the publication of Wet Ground, his first photobook, featuring imagery taken during his time as a humanitarian volunteer in Ukraine.

@ariamark

Changemaker London

Aria Shahrokhshahi

@ariamark

Entertainment New York

Maia Wyman

Entertainment New York

Writer, video essayist, and podcaster Maia Wyman has amassed over 500,000 subscribers on Youtube for her incisive commentary on film and culture. This year saw the publication of her debut book, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a work of memoir and criticism.

@Broey Deschanel

Entertainment New York

Maia Wyman

@Broey Deschanel

Entertainment London

Straight Diva

Entertainment London

Straight Diva is the podcast that sees rising artist and musician Su, I Think come together with musician Louis Blooey. Honest, outrageous and always-relevant, together the pair discuss the latest in music alongside everything from love in East London to niche British TV.

@straightdiva5

Entertainment London

Straight Diva

@straightdiva5

Entertainment Warrington

Owen Cooper

Entertainment Warrington

Aged just 15, the actor Owen Cooper made his screen debut in the 2025 Netflix drama Adolescence, alongside the series’ co-creator Stephen Graham. The youngest male actor to win a Primetime Emmy Award, next year will see him star as a young Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.

@owencoooper

Entertainment Warrington

Owen Cooper

@owencoooper

Entertainment Paris

Elias Medini

Entertainment Paris

Also known as Lyas, Elias Medini is a Paris-based fashion commentator known for his quickfire, witty videos and incisive critique. On TikTok and Instagram he’s gained a cult following for his interviews with designers, show coverage and dissections of everything fashion.

Photography by Pascal Le Segretain.

@ly.as

Entertainment Paris

Elias Medini

@ly.as

Entertainment London

OPIA

Entertainment London

Bambi Dyboski-King and Bautista Botto Barilli are the collective behind OPIA, the London queer party series that merges art, fashion and the underground. Self-described ‘party girls turned fashion/art troupe and journalists’, the pair first met on a photoshoot.

@opia___________

Entertainment London

OPIA

@opia___________

Entertainment Prague

Estrogun

Entertainment Prague

The trans-femme collective Estrogun create space for trans people in the music and club scenes, both within Prague and beyond. Founded in 2024, the ever-evolving collective host parties that balance an inclusive, community spirit with bold, high energy performances.

@Estrogun

Entertainment Prague

Estrogun

@Estrogun

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