Christian Allaire


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

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. The book was the winner of the Norma Fleck Award for children's and youth non-fiction literature in 2022.
In 2022 he appeared on Canada Reads, advocating for Michelle Good's novel Five Little Indians. The novel won the competition.
In 2023 he appeared as a guest judge in the fourth season of Canada's Drag Race.

Personal life

Allaire is of mixed Ojibwe and French-Canadian and Italian descent and is a member of the Nipissing First Nation, Ontario.