Anna Sawai Is WWD’s Style Awards Fashion Newcomer to Watch on the Red Carpet

Anna Sawai, the winner of WWD’s inaugural Fashion Newcomer style award, knows the power of a red carpet — and red dress — statement. Last year, the “Shogun” star chose to wear a custom look by Vera Wang for her history-making win at the 2024 Emmy Awards. The actress was the first actress of Asian descent to win the award for best leading actress in a drama series, and the first Japanese actress to ever win an Emmy. “It was very meaningful to me to be able to wear Vera’s dress at my first Emmys, that also could have been — and ended up somehow becoming — a historical moment,” says Sawai, reflecting on the evening a few months after the ceremony. Now a few weeks before the Golden Globe awards, the actress, 32, is getting ready to fly to Japan from Australia, where she’s spent half the year filming the second season of Godzilla series “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” for Apple TV+. She’ll return to set after a short break for the holidays and a trip to LA for the WWD Style Awards and Golden Globes, where she’s nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series —

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