Earlier this weekend, Shōgun’s Anna Sawai won the Fashion Newcomer to Watch on the Red Carpet award at the WWD Style Awards. The Golden Globe nominee lived up to the title this evening at the Los Angeles ceremony.
Sawai arrived in custom Dior dress styled by Karla Welch that reportedly took 450 hours to create. She accessorized with a statement choker and wore her hair pulled back.
Sawai is nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama. On Friday at the WWD ceremony, she spoke to Us Weekly about how she was managing her anxiety over the Globes. “I feel like when I think about it too much, I do get quite nervous. So, I’m not thinking about it at all.”
“I’m just going to enjoy it, I don’t want to cry anymore,” she added. “I’ll just think about it when I’m there.”
Ahead of the ceremony, she also spoke to WWD about her style evolution and working with Welch. When they first started collaborating two years ago, “I don’t think I really understood what I looked good in,” Sawai said. “As we started to work together more, I feel like now I know what I look good in and what I feel comfortable in. Karla also knows how I feel when I’m wearing certain things. And it’s so easy now, because everything that I try on is great. I’m also now able to experiment a little bit more. I’m happy to challenge myself if I know that I’m going to feel good in it.”
She likes structured styles in particular: “Because I’m so small, I think there needs to be some sort of shape to have people pay attention to me.”