Gwendoline Christie, best known for playing Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones, stepped out onto the navy blue carpet at the 2025 Fashion Awards in London with what many viewers called one of the most bewildering beauty choices of the night:

1 Gwendoline Christie surprised viewers by wearing an exaggerated cotton-cloud hairdo to the 2025 Fashion Awards

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Mackie defended his choice, explaining that the hairdo wasn’t random, but a deliberate homage to Comme des Garçons, the avant-garde Japanese fashion label known for embracing dissonance and distortion in their creations.