The concept: bolder colours have been slowly making a comeback in line with dopamine dressing, applied to confident silhouettes as opposed to basics and core items. Valentinoʼs A/W 22/23 show encapsulates the ethos of this story by stripping down the palette to one hue (named Pink PP) to redirect attention to the silhouette, details, surface decoration, as well as the individual wearing the clothes. This demonstrates that subtraction of something equals amplification of something else.