As a 23-year-old, I can confidently say Olivia Dean is my generation's Adele. The rising British pop star shares Adele's smooth-as-silk, neo-soul sound and her love of nostalgic fashion, too. On November 19, Dean stole the show at the 2025 ARIA Awards in a fresh-off-the-runway, Adele-coded ballgown.
If you needed more proof Dean is a fashion girl, she "flew 24hrs for this dress"— her words, not mine. Mere days after her Saturday Night Live performance, she popped up in Sydney, Australia, to serenade the audience with her Grammy-nominated hit, "Man I Need." Beforehand, however, her custom-made red carpet look got a proper close-up.
