Cardi B Defended Herself After Referring To The Designer Of Her Met Gala Dress As “Asian” Instead Of Using His Name

Many people also took issue with her decision to refer to him only as “Asian,” including Vogue‘s former managing director Gilbert Cheah, who commented on an Instagram Reel of the rapper at the Met.

“For the record and recognition, and no thanks to Cardi B, the designer of her gown is Sensen Lii who’s Chinese,” wrote Cheah. “The gown took two months to make. I personally think it’s boring and not even on theme but she chose it and should have at least remembered his name and not just that he’s ‘Asian.’”

“When I was on the red carpet, I was very scared,” she said in a video shared by TMZ. “The dress was supposed to be on a little podium, and I’ve been practicing how to pose on the podium. But at the carpet, I wasn’t allowed to use the podium. So I had a lot of things on my mind, and I was being rushed to the front of the line.”

Cardi said she “kind of forgot [how] to pronounce” Sensen Lii’s “complicated” name and opted to describe him as an “Asian designer” because she “knew the designer was Asian” but “wasn’t sure what nationality the designer was.”