Which couturier are you going to feature in your paper? Why did you choose this person to learn more about?

So, for fashion design class, we have to pick a haute couturier to write a paper about. After going to Wikipedia to find out who were actual haute couture designers, there was of course Coco Chanel, Valentino, Christian Dior, etc, but then I when I read Versace, I got that song "Versace, Versace, Medusa head on me like I'm..." That sealed the deal right there. Just kidding, not really, but what really got my interested was when I looked up Donatella Versace, one of the highlighted quotes on her wiki page is "Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas" and that just got to me because something I always say when I'm starting a new art project or I have to write a narrative essay. I immediately get all these ideas but then I can never decide between them when it comes to the final product. So, they always end up a conflicted mess until I finally get it together and make some cuts or change things around. But when I read that quote, I was like, "THAT'S ME!!!" Now I know she isn't the original founder which is Gianni Versace, but Donatella just had me intrigued. Then I started exploring around the Versace online store and I was looking at their Fall Winter 2016 Women's Collection, and I genuinely liked the line. A lot of the outfits I would actually wear(ya know, if I was rich and wanted to use that money to buy a $6,000 jacket). But they would be clothes that if I saw in a store I would be like "yaaassss bb this'll slay everyone in sight" sort of thing. What I also noticed about the collection is that it incorporated the colors of the year which if you didn't know, Pantone announced the color of the 2016 are the colors of 2016, making a whole balance pairing theme with them being rose quartz and serenity. I don't know I thought that was cool. But yeah, definitely recommend you check out the Versace line, not to necessarily buy something but maybe for some inspiration.

http://www.versace.com/us/en-us/women/features/fashion-show-fall-winter/

http://www.versace.com/us/en-us/women/features/fashion-show-fall-winter/