Christian Allaire
{{Short description|Canadian fashion journalist}}
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Christian Allaire is a Canadian fashion journalist, currently a fashion and style writer for Vogue.Kelly Boutsalis, [https://www.thestar.com/life/beauty-and-fashion/christian-allaire-is-a-new-kind-of-vogue-editor/article_bcdad829-3958-5891-bdb0-bcba4f9b4cfa.html "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, [https://quillandquire.com/review/the-power-of-style-how-fashion-and-beauty-are-used-to-reclaim-cultures/ "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, [https://quillandquire.com/omni/winners-of-the-2022-ccbc-book-awards-revealed/ "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.[https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2022-contenders-1.6326413 "Meet the Canada Reads 2022 contenders"]. CBC Books, January 26, 2022. The novel won the competition.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/and-the-winner-of-canada-reads-2022-is-1.6403622 |title=And the winner of Canada Reads 2022 is... |date=March 31, 2022 |website=CBC Books}}
In 2023 he appeared as a guest judge in the fourth season of Canada's Drag Race.{{Cite web |title=Nelly Furtado, Luann de Lesseps among 'Canada's Drag Race' S4 guest judges|url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2023/11/01/Canadas-Drag-Race-Season-4-guest-stars-trailer/5041698857296/ |author=Annie Martin |date=November 1, 2023|website=United Press International |language=en}}
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.{{cite news |url=https://hazlitt.net/longreads/waiting-room |title=The Waiting Room |first=Christian |last=Allaire |date=24 July 2018 |publisher=Hazlitt Magazine |access-date=7 April 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/christian-allaire-vogue-mom-1.6016940 |title=Anishinaabe fashion writer says his mother inspired his love of culture, and couture |date=9 May 2021 |first=Rhiannon |last=Johnson |access-date=7 April 2024}}
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Category:21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century Canadian male writers
Category:21st-century First Nations writers
Category:21st-century Canadian journalists
Category:Canadian male non-fiction writers
Category:Canadian magazine journalists
Category:Canadian fashion journalists
Category:First Nations journalists
Category:Nipissing First Nation people
Category:Toronto Metropolitan University alumni