Now it's hard to believe it, but in the past, I am an ardent lover of a large number of accessories and jewelry, bright makeup, heels and color-blocks. If it was a manicure, then necessarily with an ornate pattern, if a belt, then with a large buckle, blouses with decor, hairpins with rhinestones, jeans with embroidery, bags with active accessories. A contrasting orange jacket and turquoise shoes were sure to match the tone of the cornflower-blue skirt, everything is as it should be.



At home I have always had jewelry boxes, but why are there boxes - chests. The cosmetic table was bursting with a huge amount of "beauty", the drawers were full of tubes and jars, and I was not enough and not enough. I bought everything, as soon as a new brand appeared, and I just had to buy it. It seemed that this magic jar would definitely give that very super-result! I didn’t realize that these were clones in different packaging.

There was so much around me, and it seemed so beautiful to me. In general, Plyushkin's syndrome was in its prime. I think this is hello from the 90s, having experienced a deficit to one degree or another, in the 2000s, when everything became available, people seemed to be unable to get enough of things, and this is normal from the point of view of psychology, this is just a stage.

And then a pretty tough turning point happened in my life. A personal crisis, the loss of a loved one, the birth of a child, several moves, in general, a lot of emotionally difficult things that have filled my whole head and life. As a result, I subconsciously began to get rid of everything that came to hand, I literally had to free up space and space for myself. I got rid of almost everything, leaving only a couple of sets of clothes and shoes, and a couple of books. Mostly daughter's things and toys remained in the apartment. There was emptiness and silence. And in this silence, I finally heard myself.



I realized that there is so much of myself that I no longer need to surround myself with a huge number of things, as if confirming my existence in the material world. My consciousness has completely changed and now, on the contrary, I always want to get rid of something). And when you have a six-year-old child, there is always something to get rid of). It's just that I can no longer exist in a cluttered space.

In terms of style, a wardrobe full of things is my biggest fear as a stylist. I want to show by my example that there are much more important things in life than things themselves. People behind a huge amount of junk cannot understand what is really valuable to them, hence shopping is perceived as entertainment, but there is always nothing to wear. This happens because things are not loved, do not fit, have no great value or are not needed at all, but in fact, a person simply drowns out some kind of mental dissatisfaction with purchases.



Some people think that minimalism is boring and do not want to accept Western trends that have flooded us, especially from Instagram pages. I think that you just need to grow up to minimalism, you can play with it, like in a fashionable trend, but, first of all, it is a way of thinking when a person chooses the most important and valuable for himself - in the wardrobe, in the interior and in life.

You can endlessly rush from store to store, from trend to trend in search of the very thing, but, as they say, not knowing where to sail, you will not sail anywhere. You always need to start with yourself, I am always for a person, clothes should highlight the person, and not shout out. Someone does not accept this trend, but it is already happening, and it will be more and more, whether we like it or not. Every day in Russia there are more and more new brands with things of a laconic cut in a monochrome palette. People are tired of materialism and bad taste.About ten years ago, with our appearance, we said “look what my bag is”, now the trend is for clothes to say “look who I am, what I mean”.

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