Christian Allaire is a Canadian fashion journalist, currently a fashion and style writer for '' Vogue''.Kelly Boutsalis
"Christian Allaire is a new kind of Vogue editor"
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'', July 7, 2020. An Ojibwe member of the Nipissing First Nation, he studied journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University. 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 The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction is a lucrative literary award founded in May 1999 by the Fleck Family Foundation and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, and presented to the year's best non-fiction book for a youth aud ...

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 Five Little Indians ( bn, ফাইভ লিটিল ইন্ডিয়নস), (also known as FLI) was an alternative rock band based in Kolkata. The band was formed in January 2007. Five Little Indians merged melodic rock and a heavier ...

''. The novel won the competition. In 2023 he appeared as a guest judge in the fourth season of '' Canada's Drag Race''.

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