Gwendoline Christie attends the Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Gwendoline Christie times two.
The Game of Thrones star stepped out at Monday night’s Met Gala at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art wearing a gown by (her real life partner) Giles Deacon with custom Herbet Levine shoes and a feather headpiece. She accessorized the look with the pièce de résistance: a handheld mirror that featured her face on it. Christie had fun for photographers posing behind the mask and peering through it as she held it in front of her real face.
Christie (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Christie (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) The color of the gown is close in tone to what she wore to the 2024 Met Gala, which had a theme of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” while the mask Christie was carrying seemed like the lighter version of what Jared Leto did a few years back while carrying a head modeled after his own.
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Per British Vogue, the mask was created by Gillian Wearing, a British artist who previously won the 1997 Turner Prize, and is credited as the idea of the designer of her gown. “I’ve wanted to wear Giles for the Met Gala since before I was even in a relationship with Giles, and that’s 13 years ago,” she told Vogue. “So this has been a long time coming.” The gown is said to be an homage to three artists: John Singer Sargent, British surrealist photographer Madame Yevonde, and New York poet and photographer Ira Cohen.
Said Christie: “As I’m slowly finding in life, sometimes it works to ask for the impossible,” Christie adds. “We have mutual friends, and I contacted Gillian to ask, and she said yes immediately. And what I love about it is that it isn’t one thing: it’s not just the mask. It isn’t just a mirror. It’s so many things. Is it a shield? Is it an expression?”
The actress is best known for her work as Brienne of Tarth on the beloved HBO series Game of Thrones. She most recently starred on the moody Netflix series Wednesday as Principal Larissa Weems. See all the Met Gala red carpet arrivals here.
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