Red is passion. Red is power. Red is fire. Red rules. Red stuns. Red seduces. Red attracts. Red is also a flower. The little girl who was asked to stay on the path wore a red hood.

Red does not hide. Red is in your face.

Red likes to draw attention to itself.

Red is warm. Red is vivid. Red is intense. Red is the last colour, at the end of nature’s spectrum. Red is the best fashion.

Red is energy. Red is our blood. Red is our heart.

Red is feminine. Red is masculine. Red is strength. Red stimulates.

Red is love.“O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Luve's like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune,” sang Robert Burns more than two centuries ago and he is still loved for that. Red is not pink.

On the red carpet walk the world’s most beautiful women.

Red is Cindy Crawford in her famous Versace plunge dress at the 1991 Oscars, holding on to Richard Gere, then her boyfriend. They had presented the Oscar for the best set design.

The dress has got a Wikipedia page of its own.

Red is Julia Roberts in her Cinderella moment in Pretty Woman, the previous year, with the same Gere, in a semi-plunge dress. Only Roberts paired the dress, which almost looks like a twin of Crawford’s, with a pair of white gloves.

Red is Rekha in Silsila in her chiffon, holding her clutch.

Red is Sridevi swaying to ‘Har kisi ko nahi milta hai pyar zindagi me’ by the seaside in another, more transparent chiffon in Jaanbaaz.

Red is Deepika Padukone, stirring in a Prabal Gurung dress on the red carpet at this year’s Met Gala, “fashion’s biggest night out”, two nights ago in New York.

Red is complex. Red is difficult. So here are a few do’s and don’ts about wearing red.

• Models: Jasmine Hora, Jessica Aaron and Diksha Katyal

• Make-up: Sourab Mitra

• Hair: Kakoli Chakraborty

• Stylists: Kushal Sen and Himadri Bhattacharya

• Photographer: Arpit Rungta

• Creative director: Diskha Katyal

• Location courtesy: Monkey Bar