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

An Ojibwe member of the Nipissing First Nation, he studied journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.[1] 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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
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