DENIM AND OVERSIZED, SIZE IT UP!

As you may know I adore the sun. Especially when it's autumn; the beautiful colors of the leafs on the trees. Everything looks so pretty and pure. I think it's difficult to dress yourself this time a year. Because it's too cold or too warm, but I have found a solution; layers (a lot of layers). Then it's perfect! At the moment I'm loving the oversized trend, my new leopard-print coat from Mango fits so nice, lovely to wrap myself in it when I'm cold. It's sort of boyfiend-chic look. The same for the jeans, they are soooo comfortable! Sometimes I'm asking myself, why do I wear skinny jeans when you can wear these comfy pants. To spice it up, I have to wear my favorite killer heels by Steve Madden. It completes my outfit, and makes it more feminine, don't you think? 

Meanwhile, the weather has changed and it's raining all day. So I decided to stay home, until it's over.. Make some clothing, and do some homework for school. Living the good life :) xoxo 

LEOPARD PRINT OVERSIZED COAT MANGO | TWO-TONED DENIM BLOUSE H&M | BELT ZARA | BOYFRIEND JEANS H&M | SPIKED CLUTCH PRIMARK

SHOES STEVE MADDEN

CHANEL BRACELET THE DARLING | SPIKE CLUTCH PRIMARK

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

 NUDE COLORED HIGH HEELS WITH BLACK ACCENT STEVE MADDEN

NEW STUDY, NEW JOB, NEW CITY, NEW LOOK

After some hectic weeks, I finally found some time to make a new blogpost for you guys. Yesterday was such a lovely day, the sun was shining and everything was just stunning. I had the day off, so I enjoyed it the fullest. Biking through Amsterdam is one of the nicest things you can do on a day like this. 

As you might know, a lot has changed the last couple of weeks; like for example my look. I actually didn't noticed it before; until I saw the pictures. I got this Chanel-bag shirt from The Darling, a cute little shop at the 9 straatjes in Amsterdam. You likey?

Since I've been living in Amsterdam everything falls into place, I've been creating so much more clothing, and designing other things. In a way I'm just one happy little lady. I just love to be busy with the things I love to do :) enjoy your day Darlings xoxo 

 FURRY COAT LIPSTICK | LEATHER JACKET BY FABRIO | CHANEL-BAG SHIRT THE DARLING | TROUSERS H&M | SHOES STEVE MADDEN

 CHANEL-BAG SHIRT THE DARLING

PERFECT SUMMER DAY @ VONDELPARK, AMSTERDAM

Today it was the perfect summer day, so I took a little skate-trip through Amsterdam and ended (as usual) at the Vondelpark for a little break. I enjoyed the weather so much, it was sunny but not too warm. At the moment this is one of my favorite looks, specially because of this amazing blazer I got at a store in the '9 straatjes' called By Fabrio. I just love all these colors, such a happy little jacket and perfect for this kind of weather don't you think? Another one of my favorite items right now is this short/skirt from Zara (I got them in black as well), it's easy to wear because it's though and feminine at the same time and you can combine it in so many ways, I think it's a must-have for in your wardrobe this summer!

I always get so happy on days like this, I wish it could be summer everyday! Than life would be so much easier ;-) Enjoy your summer-holidays, with love xoxo Alyssa

BLAZER BY FABRIO | TOP NEW YORKER | SHORT/SKIRT ZARA | SHOES STEVE MADDEN

DIRTY HEELS

BLAZER H&M | SHIRT H&M | TROUSERS ONLY | SHOES STEVE MADDEN

If you ask me, the colors black and white combined with red are just magical. It looks amazing on each other,  don't you think? So simple, but it works in a way. The red trousers gives this whole look an edge. I'm wearing my favorite Steve Madden nude heels, with a black accent. These shoes walk like heaven, I mean seriously: HEAVEN. Nobody believes me, but it's true and that's why I love them. I can walk miles in them without having pain in my feet. Just as what I did today, I walked across Amsterdam, just doing my thing and enjoying the weather. As you can see, this is a real casual look for me. Normally I'm wearing more extravagant outfits, but sometimes it's good to go basic, don't you think?

HAPPY LEOPARD LOOK IN AMSTERDAM

One day I woke up and in my head I made this outfit, and guess what? It's a cool look, don't you think? I love these leopard printed trousers, it's nice they're in black and white like a snow leopard. I combined it with a top from New Look and my favorite blazer from the Miranda Kerr campaign for Mango. This is such a classy blazer, tres chique!

This picture is made in Amsterdam, as you can see this city makes me happy! I totally dig this atmosphere here, I'm addicted. I love the people, they're so much more fashionable than in Tilburg where I've lived when I was a student. It makes me feel free when I walk around the city, anything can happen and I feel I really live in the moment then.

BLAZER MANGO | TOP NEW LOOK | TROUSERS H&M | SHOES STEVE MADDEN

"I AM THE DESIGNER OF MY OWN CATASTROPHE"

Last monday I had my graduation solo, called "I am the designer of my own catastrophe". I designed and made the costume by myself. Inspired by a corset, but in a more skeleton way. I wanted it to be a sort of frame, as a from of purity. With the idea of the corset, that you are stuck or caught, in your own body or thoughts - like a fight with yourself. I wanted to show the audience the road (or search) to who I am right now. How do I see myself as a dancer and as a person, and put that on stage. It's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened, I just prefer them to remember them in an artistic way.
When I was making my costume for this solo, I didn't know if I was able to create this atmosphere I had in mind. But when I finished it, I was so proud with the result. Then I knew it, I want to do this in the future instead of dancing. I got this body from Topshop, and made the 'skeleton-skirt' with baleen. It's all hand made, it felt like I was making haute couture. Here are a few pictures of my solo, with my costume!

I passed everything, and got nice grades for my performance. At the moment I am graduated, and it feels so good. Ready to design all kind of crazy costumes and clothing. Vogue Academy, here I come!

With love, xoxo Alyssa

COSTUME DESIGNED+MADE BY ALYSSA KORAAG | PHOTO MADE BY AMAT BOLSIUS | LIGHT BY JAN VAN BREUGEL

ACCEPTED AT VOGUE ACADEMY IN AMSTERDAM

Dear fashionista's and fashion-victims,

After a very stressful month I found some time to update my blog, and it's really necessary because I have so much to tell you. Some of you might know it already, but: I got accepted at the Vogue Academy in Amsterdam!! I'm going to design my own things and learning how to make them. It's so unreal, but I'm very excited begin next September. Can't wait to create some artistic costumes with an high fashion taste.
I had a little interview at the Vogue Academy, and therefor I had to draw my favorite shoe - so I chose my Steve Madden shoe with golden chains. After that you had to make your own design of it. I created something with a zebra-print and a lot of feathers. It became a sort of safari-shoe. Really over the top, but so me haha :)

Here are some pictures of some of my drawings and designs. Enjoy! With love, xoxo Alyssa

 THE SHOE ASSIGNMENT. LEFT A DRAWING OF MY STEVE MADDEN SHOE. RIGHT MY OWN DESIGN: SAFARI-SHOE

 LOOKBOOK/PORTFOLIO BY ALYSSA KORAAG

SPRING/SUMMER 2013 DRAWINGS

ALYSSA'S PORTFOLIO: HAUTE COUTURE

THROWBACK THURSDAY: CHINA TOWN

Hello my followers all over the world,
Today I'm writing my blog on Changi Airport, this was my last day here in Singapore for now. I really enjoyed being in the big city with fashionable people, delicious food, a lot of Asian people and the many good clothing stores. Now all my money is gone, I have to go back to my normal life again. It's time for graduating, so it will be a very stressfull time for me. I'm blessed I had an amazing holiday and got a lot of new energy to create some really nice things.
This blog is called "Throwback Thursday" because I went to China Town this week here in Singapore last week. And I loved it so much I had to blog about it. So many little markets and shops with all these nice souvenirs and cheap stuff. I got a lot of bracelets for my friends back home in Holland. It smelled there like fruits, and other Chinese food. Although it was very crowdes, it had an nice atmosphere. That day I was wearing my H&m fringe blue shorts, with 'the New Icons' shirt I got a while ago also at H&M combined with an old denim gilet which I found somewhere back in my closet. Ofcourse with one of my favorite shoes, the nude with black accent Steve Madden shoes!
While I'm blogging here at Changi Airport, thinking about my fabulous and fashionable vacation I don't want to go back to the Netherlands. But, I have to.. But I got all these sweet memories! For now I'm gonna take one big sleeping-pill and take a long nap in the airplane. Sleepwell, xoxo Alyssa.

DENIM GILET IL DOLCE | SHIRT H&M | FRINGE SHORTS H&M | SHOES STEVE MADDEN | FRINGE BAG PRIMARK

MY DAY TODAY IN SINGAPORE

Today it's one of my last days here in Singapore, so what does this mean? It's time for some serious shopping! I went to the biggest shoppingmall called Suntec, and later I went to Somerset and ofcourse Orchard Road. Oops, I spend all my money (again) on clothing, bags, earrings and shoes. Luckily my dad was really nice to me, he got me a really nice bag - I'll show you that later on my blog.
At the Subway station at Somerset is such a cute Italian lunchroom called Trattoria, where I got a delicious salad with an iced latte. After lunch we walked to Orchard road and spend some time in other shoppingmalls. Take a look at the pictures, and enjoy your sunny day xoxo with love, Alyssa

DRESS FEMME X | SHOES STEVE MADDEN | FRINGE PURSE PRIMARK

SINGAPORE NIGHTLIFE LOOK

I fell in love with Singapore, it's always summer! You can wear your summer-outfit every day of the year, what do you need more? The sun is always shining, and that's making me happy as a kid in a candyshop. Even at night the temperature is perfect, that's why I'm wearing this très chique dress, which I bought about 6 or 7 years ago at Zara. One of my first items I bought at Zara, and since then I'm addicted to this store! Love their vision and designs of the clothing they sell, absolutly fashionable and affordable. I combined it with my nude high heels with black accent at the toes from Steve Madden. What do uou think of this 'vintage' Zara dress? xoxo Alyssa

A PART OF MY SHOE-COLLECTION!

and the worst part is, this isn't even everything. I know, I know... I'm a shoe-a-holic! You can call me superficial, but I don't care. My motto is: More Shoes Make More Sense. I don't know what it is, but they make my happy. Everytime I felt sad or something, I went to the city to buy shoes (or to get my ears pierced). And this is the result, I think I can start a museum or something. But what I told you before, I feel so much better when I'm wearing these babies, I feel tall, feminine and sexy. And it's not all designer shoes, they're from H&M, Zara, River Island, Primark, New Look, Alysa Mode, Aldo Shoes, Steve Madden, Maison Martin Margiela for H&M, Isabel Marant, Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo for H&M.
What do you guys think of my little shoe-collection, I don't have the same amount of shoes like Anna Dello Russo or Imelda Marcos, but it's a beginning ;-) enjoy your sunday! With love, xoxo Alyssa

SOMEDAYS YOU JUST HAVE TO CREATE YOUR OWN SUNSHINE

I love the sun! Yesterday it was such a beautiful day, with a nice temperature and a lot of sunshine! I'm happy when it's sunny, I can't help it. So me and Paulien decided to make some Outfit-of-the-Day pictures for our blog. After a couple of outfits, we went to our standerd bar for some wine. Well, a lot of wine. What a nice day! Hope you enjoyed it as well xoxo

BLAZER PRIMARK | FRINGE SHIRT H&M | TROUSERS ZARA | SHOES STEVE MADDEN | SUNNIES PRIMARK

MILITARY-CHIC

MILITARY-JACKET ZARA | SWEATER MANGO | TROUSERS H&M | SHOES STEVE MADDEN | BAG VINTAGE

This is one of my favorite outfits at the moment, I call it Military-chic. I combined my new Military jacket from the Zara with a neutral white sweater and black jeans. To match the gold decorations on the jacket, I decided to wear my new Steve Madden (heel-less) shoes with the golden chains. It's not so easy to walk in them, but I forced myself to put them on today.
I went to a café in Tilburg, called 'Anvers' with my friend Paulien to have a delicious tosti and some wine (ofcourse). We always have these lazy days together: just sitting on the couch watching tv, create  some new outfits, smoking ciggy's, shoot eachothers 'Outfit of the Day-pictures', having fun, drinking wine and bailey's and talk a lot about everything and everybody :) Love these days. After a long day making OOTD-pictures, we sit next to eachother with our MacBooks and blog all night long. So nice that we can enjoy ourselves while we're together!
So... what do you think about my Military-chic look? Hip or horror? Let me know!

Lots of love, xoxo A

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA: HITCHED UP DRESS

JACKET VERSACE FOR H&M | DRESS MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA FOR H&M | SHOES STEVE MADDEN

Finally I found some time to make a picture of my new Hitched Up Dress by Maison Martin Margiela for H&M. I waited so long, because of the cold... but then I could wait forever! So I decided to make the pictures today. O my god, I was freezing but I was lucky it's not as cold like a couple a days ago. Otherwise I think I wouldn't have survived it. It's such a nice dress, and I really love the color for the summer (when you have a little tan). So I combined it with another eyecatching item in my wardrobe, the studded leather jacket from Versace for H&M, which I got in Stockholm last year. Perfect with the Steve Madden nude shoes with a black accent. I love these pictures, because of the red and the contrast with the white snow.

SOLDEN: MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA & STEVE MADDEN

Hello, my name is Alyssa and... I'm a shopaholic. 

*silence* 

Hello Alyssa. 

My god! What's happening to me? I think it's the midlifecrisis which is on his way, because I think I might have a little shopping problem. Last week I went to the SOLDEN in Antwerp with a friend, and I spent all my money on shoes. Not just shoes, beautiful Steve Madden shoes.

And today my mom took me for a shopping-trip to Antwerp (again)... and there they were... the collection of Maison Martin Margiela: IN SALE! Every item was €20!! TWENTY EURO! So I immediately bought 2 dresses and a leather jacket! Normally the dresses were €149 and the leather jacket €249!! I didn't know it existed, from €249 for €20. Now I can die in peace haha.

I'm a spoiled little brat, I know. But from now on I'm going to save my money, I promise. Because I'm going to Singapore this May!

So... here are the pictures

My precious Steve Madden shoes! The black ones with the golden chains are imposible to walk in.

So I have to practice haha :)

If shopping is a crime, I plead guilty!

the jacket from Maison Martin Margiela for only €20!!

and... there's more!

 the 'Hitched up dress' & the 'Horizontally wore dress' by MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA for H&M

I have to make better pictures with the dresses, but I really wanted to show you this! I bought a lot more, but that's for another post with some new 'Outfit of the Day' pictures which I'm making very soon! Have a nice evening :) 

xoxo Alyssa