Chinese-red

Vera Wang's strapless silk-taffeta, bubble and tulle dress with a multi-strand pearl and satin necklace by Lanvin, black silk Giuseppe Zanotti pumps with pearl and rhinestone ankle straps, and Chinese-red glasses from loptics.

All River Red uses a reduced version of Stravinsky's sprawling, familiar Rite of Spring, and the dozen dancers from the Beijing Modern Dance Company (men in black Mao suits, women in Chinese-red dresses) emit an icy smoothness in counterpoint to the heated score.

Mohave pyracantha with its Chinese-red berries, disease resistance, and cold tolerance has become one of the world's most widely grown new shrubs.