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We’ve spent many an evening pondering the seasonal color choices of designers:  Why do they all choose the same color?  How do they know what color to choose?  Is there some secret memo that gets passed around to designers? Does Pantone rule the world???  We have yet to determine exactly how designers know what is going to be the “it” color of the season (we still think they all meet at some secret evil fashion lair two times a year to discuss and choose what color we’ll all be coveting six months down the road), however for Fall/Winter 2010 that “it” color is red.  Call it tomato, call it scarlet, call it merlot or ruby.  Red graced the runways of everyone from Givenchy, Zac Posen, Yigal Azrouel, Carolina Herrera, Marc by Marc Jacobs, DSquared2 and Tommy Hilfiger.  You name them and they saw red, from the head (cherry red chapeaus at Jean Paul Gaultier) right down to the toe (deep red floral embellished heels at Carolina Herrera).  We’re also seing red this season but our red fashions won’t put us in the red, meaning they all come with a price tag of less than $200 a pop.  Click through to shop our favorite red pieces for Fall/Winter 2010.

We’re always happy when a trend has staying power and judging by the number of celebrities and Spring 2010 / Resort 2011 collections that went wild for leopard prints, we have a feeling we’ll be showing off our spots for quite some time. Rachel Bilson proved she’s a cat lover at heart when she showed up at Cannes this year in a leopard print Isabel Marant dress. Kate Moss is always spotted in a leopard topper of some sorts the minute the temperature drops. And both Alexa Chung and SJP have been known to add a meow-worthy accessory from time to time. In addition to these leopard loving celebs designers like Giambattista Valli, Diane von Furstenberg and Alexander Wang all showed their spots this Spring Summer 2010 with Giambattista Valli even repeating leopard prints for his Resort 2011 collection that showed this week (Givenchy also sent leopard prints down their Resort 2011 runway). Check out our favorite spotted pieces that are sure to get you through the summer and beyond.

We can’t help but wonder how Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci’s eyes didn’t bleed when he was putting together his Spring 2010 collection.  The black and white graphic prints are so psychedelic, we get high just by looking at them.  But that didn’t stop him or designers like Jason Wu and Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga from turning to ink blots and zig zagging patterns to complete their spring lines.  And even though we may need special glasses to look directly at their prints, we’re so thrilled with the look that we couldn’t help but track down more affordable versions of their kaleidoscopic prints.  Click through to see what we found.