Organizing Your Closet with the Marie Kondo Method
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The great Marie Kondo, high priestess of organization, is taking a break to take care of her family. Surprising, and ultimately, with her three young children, she certainly deserves a vacation and a little relaxation on the organization front.
She leaves behind a lovely legacy, and thanks to her Netflix show, many of us have realized how pleasant it is to open impeccably organized drawers.
Because yes, while writing about fashion, we often worry about our clothing and shoes, but very rarely about how to organize our wardrobe. And yet… God knows how many desperate fashionistas do not know what to wear while their closets overflow.
So, I take this opportunity to share my experience of spending an entire weekend sorting through my clothes using the Marie Kondo method so that you can finally have a wardrobe at home that looks like a luxury store display.
Why organize your wardrobe with intention?
Because fashion is becoming sustainable, and sorting through your wardrobe can also be a green initiative. Organizing your wardrobe and parting with certain clothes does not mean completely renouncing consumerism, but rather reflecting on the usefulness of the clothes you own and whether you really need that little impulse purchase that you won’t wear more than twice.
Every piece of clothing has an environmental impact, and it’s the right time to adopt a more sustainable approach in our closets. Sorting also means giving more space to the outfits we truly love and that make us feel beautiful.
Buy less but better
Here are some tips for purchasing your clothing more wisely:
- Prioritize local brands such as made in France, made in Europe, or brands that manufacture and produce in a single country.
- Reduce fast fashion purchases.
- Shop for second-hand items.
- Opt for clothing made from organic cotton or more eco-friendly materials.
Discover brands you love that really suit you
We tend to buy unique pieces in a “love at first sight” mode that don’t necessarily go together. The result? A wardrobe overflowing with clothes, yet we still struggle each morning to choose an outfit.
The simplest solution to ensure we have clothes that fit us and that we can have fun with is to know and buy a few brands that offer cuts that suit us and styles we love.
Ideally, we could have in our closets one or two brands that offer quality basics like Vans or The Kooples, for instance. One or two brands whose style perfectly suits us, like Maje or Sandro, and finally, a luxury brand from which we can buy a beloved piece during sales, like Balmain.
How to declutter your wardrobe without frustration?
We all want a colorful, organized, and clean wardrobe, yet how many times have we tried to declutter only to end up parting with just two or three pieces? It’s human nature, but it’s hard to say goodbye to clothes that remind us of memories or that might be useful “just in case,” even if we know very well that most of them will never see the light of day again.
Yes, decluttering can be emotional, but just thinking a bit differently can allow us to see things from a better angle. Decluttering helps us realize all the clothes we own and, at the same time, our spending habits.
Ultimately, organizing is much more than a simple household task; it allows us to learn a lot about ourselves and to grow.
Keep the clothes you truly love
- The Spark Joy Method:
How do you know if you should keep that sweater you never wear? It’s very simple; you hold it in your hands and, by feeling the fabric, you ask yourself if this piece brings you joy. If yes, you can keep it; if not, you say “thank you for serving us” and add it to the donation pile.
It’s Marie Kondo who popularized this simple and honest technique to keep only the clothes that make us happy.
- Donate instead of throwing away
We stay in a sustainable and solitary approach to give a second life to our clothes that can bring happiness to others.
After all, if this piece appealed to us one day, it will surely please someone else who will appreciate it.
We can sell our old clothes on second-hand apps or donate them to charities.
Create capsule outfits
Organizing your wardrobe allows you to realize, on one hand, that you often have way too many clothes, and on the other hand, that you don’t always appreciate the lovely pieces you own.
After decluttering and keeping only the clothes you actually want to wear, you can move on to the next step: creating capsule outfits.
Preparing several capsule outfits means you always have cohesive outfits made with interchangeable pieces at your fingertips. Thus, you can have a wardrobe consisting of about thirty pieces, including several quality basics, and always have perfectly harmonious ensembles.
Organization
Indeed, it’s not the most fun task, but it is important when you want to organize your wardrobe. The advantage of Marie Kondo’s organizing method? It lasts over time and visually, we can no longer do without a well-organized wardrobe that showcases our finest pieces.
The perfect folding technique
There’s nothing better than a video made by the queen of folding to explain the space-saving and visual satisfaction of having well-folded clothes in the same way.
Buy pretty storage boxes
If we push the envelope a little further, we can stick a pretty label on the box indicating its contents. This can be very useful for accessories that we have in multiple copies and that don’t have a really defined place in our wardrobe, like belts, hats, or scarves.
In addition to organizing our things, storage boxes add colors to the room and help us save time.
The Marie Kondo method works wonders, and a little personal confession, it also benefits all the inhabitants of the house who, in a more organized environment, have more time for themselves.
Image credit: © Marie Kondo – Netflix
