On believed she had a method, she just didn’t have a child. Marie Kondo, the Japanese goddess of tidying up, confessed in an interview that she stopped tidying up after giving birth to her third child in 2021. Many greeted the news with the same relief and feeling. of injustice that one can feel to discover that those who have large empty and zen apartments also have overflowing country houses.
“Now I understand that what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home,” said the author of There storage magic (First, 2015). Frankly, we could have told him. And without trying to sell him 8 million copies of books titled “The Magic of the mess”.
Marie Kondo’s confession comes on top of other weak signals that promise a big comeback to the bazaar. In the decoration trend, minimalism is over, it’s the return of color, the celebration of patterns, brands have understood that they have little to gain by celebrating empty houses. The style granny chic (“granny chic”) recommends hoarding crocheted doilies, trinkets and pom-pom lampshades.
On social networks, the hashtag #cluttercore (for followers of disorder) is associated with overflowing teenage bedrooms. Not to mention that since the collapse of the NFT market, these lines of code which panicked the counters in 2021, the disorder of the world has something cozy and reassuring, and here are the incomes of Marie Kondo’s minimalism all ready to give up to the avatars a clean and tidy virtual world.
How do we recognize them?
They have a chair in their room that they use to put things down. Since they tried to empty their house, we can no longer cross the entrance cluttered with bags that have to go to Emmaüs, to the recycling center, to the cellar. When they start doing “sorting”, guests arrive and they put everything back in a big pile in the closet. When they go to garage sales, they spend their time commenting on the objects they had at home and hesitate to buy them back. They received The magic of storage as a gift, but haven’t taken the time to read it because they don’t know where they put it.
how they talk
“Marie Kondo who gives up tidying up… I thought it was ‘fake news’ at first, it’s as if Fabien Roussel was going vegan…” “There’s nothing lying around with them, it’s scary. » “And soon we’ll find out that she also has Tupperware without lids in her cupboards.” » “But it seems she said she was still putting her purse away.” » “Only people who don’t work have nothing on their desks. Have you ever seen the mess that reigns in Francis Bacon’s studio? And the quantity of books in the libraries of Karl Lagerfeld or Umberto Eco? » “Children like to come back to their old books. » “At least close your door…” “I don’t want to do the housework any more. “You still can’t leave food in your room.” » “We only keep the beautiful cans of sardines. » « The more I hear about the metaverse, the more I want to get out some colored pencils. »
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