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

The Dazed 100 is back for 2025! Now running for over a decade since it first launched, our annual round-up has featured some of the most inspiring emerging names in fashion, music, activism, art and more, including Chappell Roan, Virgil Abloh, Shon Faye, SOPHIE, Hunter Schafer, Harris Dickinson and Greta Thunberg. 

Dazed 100 alumni have gone on to helm their industries, set whole new standards in their practices, and make radical change in the world. “Looking back over the past decade, it’s striking to see how the Dazed 100 has become a kind of cultural crystal ball, predicting and pointing towards the people and ideas defining the landscape ahead,” says Ted Stansfield, Editor-in-Chief of Dazed.

This year, we’re launching four Dazed 100 lists across four regions. Alongside the Global list, Dazed teams across the world (the US, MENA, and Korea) have put together lists specific to the US, the MENA region, and Asia to spotlight even more international talent. 

As well as celebrating the next generation of creatives, activists, and pioneers for their individual achievements, this year’s list is a reminder that the Dazed 100 is about the people who are collectively driving youth culture forward. “The Dazed 100 isn’t just about people on the rise – it’s about how these individuals and communities, their ideas and creativity, are shaping and reshaping culture as we know it,” says Stansfield.

To expand upon this community ethos, this year, we invited our audience to help us compile the list. “For the first time, we asked our audience to nominate new talent across our social channels – and the response was overwhelming,” says Stansfield. “Collaborating with them has made the Dazed 100 more diverse, dynamic and deeply community-centric than ever.” 

Our Global Dazed 100 is published today, featuring a selection of names from the US, MENA, and Asia lists too. But stay tuned, as we’ll be launching the other lists in their entirety this week. 

This year’s Global Dazed 100 includes some of the most exciting names in culture right now. In the music category, the list features the youngest-ever nominee for the BRITs Rising Star award, Sekou, the Liverpudlian rapper EsDeekid, and rising indie band Geese. The fashion category includes pioneering designers such as Gina Corrieri, Joshua Ewusie, and Lucila Safdie. We’re also spotlighting pioneers in the beauty industry, like the make-up artist Hugo Trix. Finally, we’re also featuring ten Dazed Clubbers on this year’s Global list.

To stay tuned for updates and for more information, sign up to the Dazed Club app here.

See the 2025 Dazed 100 Global list in full here.

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