Elle editor sparks online race row
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BEAUTY EDITOR CLAIMS BLACK FACE COSTUME WAS A TRIBUTE AND APOLOGISES FOR CAUSING OFFENCE THE beauty editor of _Elle_ magazine has been criticised for posting a picture of herself in
blackface online. Jeanne Deroo has since pulled the photo from Instagram, but not before provoking thousands of online condemnations and commentary, particularly from the United States.
Deroo has since apologised for causing offence. “I was not aware of the gravity of my actions,” she said, adding that she had chosen to dress up as Solange Knowles at a private party on the
theme of ‘icons’. “Some people apparently are still confused about blackface,” wrote Amethyst Tate in the _International Business Times_. Tweeter @The_Economiss offered a simple explanation:
“You do blackface->you’re doing something racist->you are racist”. Deroo sought to distance herself from _Elle_ magazine in France, saying her actions were nothing to do with it.
However, the magazine is no stranger to causing racist controversy. In January 2012 it eventually took down an online article entitled _Black Fashion Power_ after it was bombarded with
criticism for being “patronising” and “colonial” in tone. The timing is bad for the magazine which currently features Christiane Taubira, a black government minister who has been the subject
of several racist attacks, on its front cover. Jeanne Deroo/Instagram