Swiss Minimalism – The New Lifestyle Trend Everyone is Following These Days
If you’re an active social media user, chances are you have already spotted people posting snapshots of their minimized closets, clean and clutter-free bedrooms and their purging sessions on Snapchat and Instagram. Minimalism is the new lifestyle trend that’s been making waves around for past few years but in 2018 the trend grew stronger when numerous celebrities and social media influencers jumped on the bandwagon and made the hashtags ‘minimalist lifestyle’ a trending hashtag.
What is Swiss Minimalism?
The minimalist lifestyle trend actually originated from the Swiss Design Minimalism – an art movement that rejected abstract obnoxious subjective expressionism of artists and focused on reducing art to its bare minimum style. That way, art comes out in its purest raw form. Bold strokes of brushes, vertical lines, clean patterns and prints are the heart and soul of Swiss Minimalism.
Minimalist Lifestyle
Inspired by Swiss Design Minimalism – minimalist lifestyle focuses on getting rid of unnecessary clutter from your surroundings so you could focus on what actually matters in life: people, emotions, ethics, and experiences. A minimalist lifestyle encourages people to let go of material possessions thus reducing their hoarding habits and lead them towards a life of bare necessities but clear and sharp mind and soul.
Minimalist Fashion
The minimalist lifestyle trend gave birth to the famous minimalist fashion movement. The love for clean and simple aesthetics combined with a strong urge to reduce fashion waste devised the love for secondhand clothing, ethical shopping and sustainable fashion apparel in people. All across the globe, followers of minimalist fashion are rising against becoming the fast fashion consumer and urge their friends and family to buy gently used branded clothes rather than spending money on new items each season and leave them go almost un-used in the closet.
Millennials Go Minimal EVERYWHERE!
The biggest success of the minimalist lifestyle lies in the fact that it struck the right chords with the millennials right form the get go. If millennial celebrities and influencers are doing it, you know it’s a trend that would stick around for long. The ‘less is more’ philosophy is practiced and preached even by the well-settled millionaires who are following the trend. Monochromatic all-round fabrics with sustainable top layers and vintage accessories that are versatile to style with a magnitude of outfit combinations are seen all over social media.
If you’re inspired by the minimalist fashion trend and would like to play your part in saving the planet and/or just trying a new cool trend, buy secondhand clothing this season. You’ll save money and help a good cause.