Christian Allaire

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Christian Allaire
NationalityCanadian
OccupationFashion journalist

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

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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]

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References

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  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.