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