| Christian Allaire | |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Occupation: | Fashion journalist |
Christian Allaire is a Canadian fashion journalist, currently a fashion and style writer for Vogue.[1]
Allaire 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]
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]