Cardi B is defending herself after forgetting the name of Chinese designer Sensen Lii, who designed her 2024 Met Gala look. When asked by Emma Chamberlain for Vogue who made her dress, Cardi replied, “They’re Asian and everything.” The rapper received backlash for her comment online, and it was seen as racially insensitive. “No thanks to Cardi B, the designer of her gown is Sensen Lii who’s Chinese. The gown took two months to make. I personally think it’s boring and not even on theme… should have at least remembered his name and not just that he’s ‘Asian,'” wrote Vogue‘s former managing director, Gilbert Cheah, on Instagram. Cardi responded to this by saying she “had a lot of things on” her mind and was “very scared” after being rushed to the front of the Met queue. “I kind of forgot how to pronounce the designer’s name because his name is a little bit complicated,” recalled the ‘WAP’ rapper. She didn’t mean to “be offensive,” and felt like “the designer and my stylist worked really hard for this theme.” The rapper went on to say that Cheah was trying to offend her but was “actually offending the people behind-the-scenes.”