Alyssa Coscarelli, the Florida girl, moved in New York about 7 years ago and now considers this city her home.
After graduating in merchandising at LIM College, she landed working as a Fashion Market Writer at Refinery29 (after having done a couple of internships), a job that she stopped doing a month ago to go as a freelance writer.
Alyssa is a writer, a consultant and an editor but most importantly, she is a working woman that never stops doing what she loves and who never gets satisfied of what she already knows.
She is eager to learn and to know more about all different kinds of topics such as architecture, design, society issues, diversity and more and she loves to discover new places and new people to feed her desire to learn. This is visible by the way she dresses. She says it herself, she doesn’t have a special kind of style, she simply dresses the way she likes and when a piece of cloth catches her attention, she will wear it whether it fits her “style” or not. But she also admits that she’s trying to slow her consumption of Zara clothes or other big brands to focus on vintage boutiques and smaller brands and designers in order to slow the circuit of fast fashion.
She always loved to write but she truly realized it when she got her internship at Refinery29 and when she had the opportunity to write by herself for herlself. She dove headfirst into her job and she says that since then, it’s been an amazing journey because she gets the chance to let people follow her fashion journey and she can show them NY as she sees it, even though her work is not always easy. Being flexible and adaptable are the key to handle problems quickly and simply.
Let’s be real, Alyssa is a normal person. Yes she is what we could consider an Instagrammer (with 184k followers ; @alyssainthecity), but she is a down-to-earth person who is well aware of issues that women encounter during their lives. That’s why she uses Instagram to remind the people that follow her how important diversity and acceptance is for everyone, especially for women, and how we all have a voice that matters. Thanks to that, she joined The Wing (a network of work and community spaces designed for women) as a freelance writer and she will keep on publishing empowering articles that will help people accept who they are, that’s what makes her the Woman of the Week.