Christian Allaire

Christian Allaire
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Fashion journalist

Christian Allaire is a Canadian fashion journalist, currently a fashion and style writer for Vogue.[1]

Early life

Allaire studied journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.[1]

Career

He began as a freelance fashion journalist, working on various contracts for Vogue before his first bylined piece for the magazine was published in 2020.[1]

In 2021 he published The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Used to Reclaim Cultures, a non-fiction book about the importance of clothing and fashion as a tool of cultural preservation and revival in underrepresented cultural groups.[2] The book was the winner of the Norma Fleck Award for children's and youth non-fiction literature in 2022.[3]

In 2022 he appeared on Canada Reads, advocating for Michelle Good's novel Five Little Indians.[4] The novel won the competition.[5]

In 2023 he appeared as a guest judge in the fourth season of Canada's Drag Race.[6]

Personal life

Allaire is of mixed Ojibwe (mother) and French-Canadian and Italian (father) descent and is a member of the Nipissing First Nation, Ontario.[7][8]

References

1. Kelly Boutsalis, "Christian Allaire is a new kind of Vogue editor". Toronto Star, July 7, 2020.
2. Allison Mills, "The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Used to Reclaim Cultures". Quill & Quire, May 2021.
3. Inderjit Deogun, "Winners of the 2022 CCBC Book Awards revealed". Quill & Quire, September 30, 2022.
4. "Meet the Canada Reads 2022 contenders". CBC Books, January 26, 2022.
5. "And the winner of Canada Reads 2022 is..." CBC Books. March 31, 2022.
6. Annie Martin (November 1, 2023). "Nelly Furtado, Luann de Lesseps among 'Canada's Drag Race' S4 guest judges". United Press International.
7. Allaire, Christian (24 July 2018). "The Waiting Room". Hazlitt Magazine. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
8. Johnson, Rhiannon (9 May 2021). "Anishinaabe fashion writer says his mother inspired his love of culture, and couture". Retrieved 7 April 2024.