Munroe Bergdorf Is Joining L'Oréal Paris’ New Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board

L’Oréal Paris, which is owned by Makeup.com’s parent company L’Oréal, announced this week that the company will be forming a UK Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board that includes voices from both inside and outside of the company. One of those voices is model and transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf, who was fired as spokesperson for the brand in 2017 after speaking out against white supremacy. 

L’Oréal executives and Bergdorf talked this week after the model called out the brand on June 4 for its initial response to the Black Lives Matter movement. “L'Oréal claiming to stand with the black community, yet also refusing to engage with the community on this issue, or apologize for the harm they caused to a black female queer transgender employee, shows us who they are,” Bergdorf wrote on Instagram. 

In a statement posted to her Instagram feed on June 9, Bergdorf said that L’Oréal Paris brand president Delphine Viguier has since reached out to her directly to have an “open and constructive conversation.”

In her own statement, Viguier said: “I regret the lack of dialogue and support the company showed Munroe around the time of termination. We should have also done more to create a conversation for change.