With Remembrance Day comes the ubiquitous poppy, glowing proudly red and displayed on lapels nationwide to honour our fallen soldiers and our glorious country. That gorgeous and special shade of red holds something dear to two very important designers in the fashion industry, although the colour is the only common ground between the poppy and these designers. Here's the lowdown on that famous red from a fashion perspective.

Valentino
"Valentino Red" is actually a colour in the fashion industry. Best known for his stunning gowns, many done in his signature shade, Valentino designs are as eye-catching as their colour.

Although the incredibly wellrespected designer resigned back in 2008, the fashion house continues to create collections that are part whimsical, part feminine and all glamour. Perhaps the most glamorous (or, at the very least, certainly the most memorable) collection was his final show in Paris. Flowing frocks in silk and satin adorned and printed with floral designs was just a warm-up for the finale, which had all the models in identical red dresses fill up the catwalk and cast that distinguished glowing shade in the room.

Loving the colour so much, the designer named his more contemporary and affordable sub-label REDValentino. Modern designs are blended with classic Valentino elements to create collections of utmost lust and charm. (I'm currently coveting the on-trend wool military green coat with utilitarian cargo pockets and a touch of Valentino with a quintessential bow at the neck. Sublime.) Even if red is not my colour, out of admiration for the designer, I'd feel much better scoring that coat if it were topped by a Valentino Red dress.

Christian Louboutin
Is there any sole more iconic than that of Louboutins? Rumour has it when the designer first opened shop, he employed an intern that had a signature red manicure which gave him the idea to use her lacquer on the soles of his shoes, thus creating history.

Red soles, although Louboutin's trademark, isn't the only recognizable trait of his shoes. Staggeringly high heels have become something of a Louboutin trademark as well, if not solely (no pun intended) because of his influence on the height of heels evolving over the past three decades. The inspiration for his skyscraper heels came from a sign in a museum he saw in his 20s that forbid women to wear high heels to prevent indentations in the wood floors. "I wanted to defy that," Louboutin was quoted. "I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered."

In the best interest of women's sex appeal and leg aesthetic, Louboutin starting making heels 12 cm in the 1990s, which, at the time, was considered incredibly high. Today, the official website (which is as creative, beautiful and as fun as the shoes) allows you to browse the current collection by category, with one labeled as 'extremely high' where all the designs have a heel height of 15 cm. Noticeably, every single shoe in every collection has the signature red sole.

Despite trademarking the red sole back in 2008, Yves Saint Laurent created a shoe this year with a red sole, much to Louboutin's aversion, and consequently, YSL was met with a lawsuit this past April. Much controversy was raised and disputed in the fashion industry and in the courtroom over the issue. Despite the red sole being associated with Louboutin, the judge ruled in favour of Yves Saint Laurent in October of this year, ultimately deciding a colour does not deserve trademark protection. Talk about seeing red.