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Nearly a year before the 2025 Met Gala, Anna Sawai sat down with Marie Claire to discuss her first time attending a Haute Couture show. Her FX series Shōgun had only recently aired to critical acclaim, but things like historic Emmy wins and best-dressed lists weren't on her radar just yet. All she wanted, she told me, was to "be grounded and be my own self."
