Christian Allaire (born 1992) is a Canadian fashion journalist, currently a fashion and style writer for Vogue.Kelly Boutsalis, "Christian Allaire is a new kind of Vogue editor". Toronto Star, July 7, 2020.
Early life Allaire studied journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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.
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.Allison Mills, "The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Used to Reclaim Cultures". Quill & Quire, May 2021. The book was the winner of the Norma Fleck Award for children's and youth non-fiction literature in 2022.Inderjit Deogun, "Winners of the 2022 CCBC Book Awards revealed". Quill & Quire, September 30, 2022.
In 2022, he appeared on Canada Reads, advocating for Michelle Good's novel Five Little Indians."Meet the Canada Reads 2022 contenders". CBC Books, January 26, 2022. The novel won the competition.
In 2023, he appeared as a guest judge in the fourth season of Canada's Drag Race, and he returned in 2026 as a guest judge in the first season of Canada's Drag Race All Stars.
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.
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