Sweater Dress: The Fall Essential

 

I had recently bought a basic black classic sweater dress from H&M in attempts to pull together my fall wardrobe. I loved the versatility and how many different ways it could be worn…… and it was super comfy and warm!!  I paired it with a leopard print collared shirt and a classic gold chain to break up the black. I cant wait to wear it again and again, and I think the sweater dress is an essential for any ones fall wardrobe.

•  tights, tall boots, big printed scarf, skinny belt
•  beanie hat, gold accessories, fucia lips
• combat boots, printed nylons, statement neclace
• ancle boots, chambaray shirt, belt
• thigh high socks, wedge shoes, and big sunnies and bag
• and so much more

I was Inspired by Amanda Seyfreid’s girly grunge photo shoot in the August issue of ELLE. She looked natural, clean and beautiful and it made her lips really pop!  See the article here. They created the perfect modern-day grunge girl makeup look.  Makeup artist Polly Osmond: only used  a deep red Clé de Peau Beauté lipstick. Other than that, she was barefaced—and rocked it. I decided to try out the look for myself.  I applied dark lipstick, brushed my hair out and walked right out the door!

 

Thanks for listening!!

 xoxo -Alaina

-Chic Academy

Homecoming Hotties of Chic Academy!

Homecoming is an amazing tradishion where your whole the entire highschool comes together in late September or early October, no matter their differences, to dress up like royalty and lets go to dance the night away! It involves lots of work, finding the perfect dream dress and shoes, getting pampered, nails done, hair, makeup and dancing all night...... it's hard but we push it through to continue this dreamy tradishion..... Your Welcome!! hahaha Well anyway, check out what our gorgous style-driven members showed up in!! 

Dress: B.Darlin $27
Shoes: GoMarx $18
Necklace: Claires $8
Earrings: Icing $3
Bracelets: Icing $6
Make Up: Origins Facial/Make Up Free
Hair: Hayley Hyer

Suit- Custom tailored
Tie- Calvin Klein
Shoes- Joseph Abboud 
Shirt- Nautica

-Dress:$40
-Shoes:$10
Makeup by me-I used all e.l.f products:
-Elf 50 eyeshadow, bronzed, blush and lips palette was $15
-Elf eyeliner was $1 
-Elf mascara $1
And my mom did my hair lol

Dress- Pearl, Georgina Chapman of Marchesca
Heels- Charolette Russe
Makeup- Sephora 
Nails- nude acrylic RubyNails

Dress: Sherri Hill (Net Fashion Ave.)

-Chic Academy

New York Fashion Week Fall 2013 review

As all of you know last week was Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week!! Over 300 collections showed this past week in New York, one of the four major fashion weeks over the whole world!! This is where the biggest of designers show their newest creations and where aspiring designers get discovered and hopefully make a name for themselves! Since I was stuck in high school all day in Missouri I had to catch myself up on all of the beautiful gowns, dresses, new cutting edge trends, makeup, street style and whats going to be in style. 

I found a great website that shows sideshows from the highlights of fashion week to let you look through your favorite designers quickly. They try to give you the "front row experience" check it out HERE!! Check it out and tell us on our Facebook page your favorites!!

Fashion week isn't only about the glamour either, now a day having a cool runway playlist is just as important of your shoes! The tunes are almost as trendsetting as the clothes! Don't miss out on the new music played at the shows! 

Check out some of the top tracks from NYFW here! 

From the street style to the shows and designers and even celebrity sitings MBFW is nothing to take lightly!! Do your research and weigh in with us! What was your favorite collection???

"Every year the women of New York leave the past behind and look forward to the future... this is known as Fashion Week"-Carrie Bradshaw

-Chic Academy

First Day Fashion!

School starting is always kind of depressing...... until you remember it's the perfect excuse to get all dressed up and look super cute, go shopping, and make everyone jealous of your adorable outfit! The first day of school is a big deal for everyone but for the girls in Chic Academy it's especially important to show everyone your fashion point of view. Your making first impressions... emphasis on impressing. Everyone puts together an awesome outfit to start out the year and show everyone what they got! We asked the girls to take pictures of their back to school looks and post them to our facebook page  or to instagram #chicacademy!

Alaina Aylward

Daneisha Jones

Delaney Armstrong

Courtney Harris

Jasmine Majors

Drake Evans

One of our members Alex Plattner makes AMAZING videos and actually made a back to school fashion haul! She puts together the coolest outfits check it out her youtube channel here! Watch her awesome video here!

"not bragging here just like fashion a lot and wanted to show people my style. sorry for so much f21 stuff"

 -Alex

Well I hope you were inspired by these outfits there will be a whole year more to come. Have an amazing week everyone!!

-Chic Academy

"Everyday is a fashion show and the world is your runway."

-Coco Chanel