Anyone who grew up in the 1990s would be familiar with the wave of crushed velvet that washed over the decade.  We …

We swear we’re not actively trying to ram holiday cheer down your throats this early in the season but when we came across this bordeaux …

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.

The girls over at Fashionista got their hands on the Zac Posen for Target lookbook and put up all the images online (go take …