The Next Icons

How do you navigate coming of age in a world that’s in constant crisis? The actors, artists, musicians, models, athletes, writers, and activists in this portfolio—all 30 years old or younger—are doing just that. They’re not only charting a path forward but also making space for others by bringing new ideas, perspectives, and experiences to the table with a generosity, hopefulness, and vision that’s both inspiring and inspired. To them, age represents much more than a number: It’s an opportunity, where the goal isn’t to become an icon but to redefine what it means to be one.

HAILEY BIEBER

Model and beauty entrepreneur, 25

HAILEY BIEBER has been thrown some curveballs this year, including a serious health scare. But the model, style star, and newly minted beauty mogul is ready for anything.

Story by RACHEL TASHJIAN

Hailey Bieber is one of the best-dressed women alive, in part because she’s so willing to mess up. “I look back on things that I’ve worn and I literally am so embarrassed. I’m like, what was I thinking?! That was such a miss,” she tells me from Idaho, where she and her pop-superstar

husband, Justin Bieber, have disappeared for a mini vacation. It’s a surprising confession for someone who telegraphs such confidence, whether she’s going to the gym or Oscars parties and whose style is so obsessively chronicled. Embarrassment, though, is different from regret. “I’m never afraid to try anything. I think that just goes to show that there’s a moving evolution [in my style]. It just keeps growing. Which is kind of how I want to be in all areas of life.”