Milan Fashion Week Karina Gawon Mislabeling Controversy: A Pattern of Disrespect?
Exploring the Milan Fashion Week Karina Gawon mislabeling controversy by CULTED. Fans call out repeated errors as racial microaggressions or engagement farming.
Can't they tell us apart? A major fashion media outlet just mistook a rising K-pop star for an established icon—and fans aren't buying the 'innocent mistake' excuse this time.
The Milan Fashion Week Karina Gawon Mislabeling Controversy
According to social media reports on January 19, 2026, the excitement of Milan Fashion Week was soured by a significant blunder from the media outlet CULTED. While covering the Prada show, the publication posted a video of MEOVV's Gawon but identified her as aespa's Karina in both the caption and the tags.
Not the First Time: A History of Misidentification
Fans were quick to point out that this isn't an isolated incident for CULTED. Back in 2024, the same outlet faced backlash for identifying members of ILLIT as NewJeans during their Paris debut. This repetition has sparked accusations of racial microaggression and 'engagement farming,' where outlets intentionally use wrong tags to stir up controversy and comments.
This account is doing this on purpose. Using ILLIT's song but putting Gawon in the video while the caption says Karina... they just want attention.
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