Designer’s racist apology is worse than her racist note

HAVEN’T we all learnt by now that white people should never, ever say the N-word? Well not everyone knows that apparently, including this clueless fashion designer.

Russian fashion designer Ulyana Sergeenko is in hot water over using the N-word in a thank you card. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

RUSSIAN fashion designer Ulyana Sergeenko is under fire for using the N-word in a note to lifestyle blogger Miroslava Duma — neither are black.

On Monday, Duma, 32, posted a snap of Sergeenko’s tone-deaf note on her Instagram story, which read “To my n***as in Paris,” a play on the popular Kanye West song.

The note has sparked outrage on social media, reports the Cut.

This DISGUSTS me. To see Mira post something on IG so casually using this racial slur, and then have Ulyana defend the usage with such a bs excuse makes my blood boil. So tired of “fashion girls” thinking that listening to one rap song gives them the right. pic.twitter.com/P5XHVnNXaX

— Callia A. Hargrove (@calliarmelle) January 23, 2018

Sergeenko, 36, wrote an equally clueless apology on her Instagram page.

“Kanye West is one of my favourite musicians,” she said. “And yes, we call each other the N word sometimes when we want to believe that we are just as cool as these guys who sing it.”

This article originally appeared on The New York Post and has been republished here with permission.