Is your closet overflowing with clothes, but every morning you have a hard time deciding what to wear? The solution is to create a minimalist style with a capsule wardrobe.
What is a Capsule Wardrobe?
The story of the capsule wardrobe begins in London in the 1970s with a boutique called “Wardrobe” selling minimalist, versatile, high-quality fashion pieces that buyers could easily mix and match. It is a fashion and lifestyle trend popularized by Donna Karan’s “Seven Easy Pieces” collection in 1985.
The capsule wardrobe concept refers to a collection of clothes made up of few pieces that can be combined in many ways. This concept encourages you to buy pieces not just because they are trendy, but also fit your style. In this way, every piece you combine not only fits together, but also helps to reveal your unique style.
With the rise of the sustainability trend in fashion, the capsule wardrobe is rapidly gaining a place not only in fashion shows and collections, but also in people’s daily lives. People who create capsule wardrobes think about the pieces they buy because they buy fewer pieces, and thus these pieces offer better quality. By investing in basic, quality pieces that will last for years and can be worn all the time, this trend avoids the consumerism of fast fashion and creates a sustainable fashion style by supporting authentic minimalism.
How to Create a Capsule Wardrobe?
This is not just a fashion trend, but a concept that affects your lifestyle. It’s based on finding your own style and curating your closet accordingly. Therefore, the first step in creating a capsule wardrobe is to go through your own closet and identify the pieces you wear often and the ones you never wear. The best way to do this is to turn all the hangers in your closet in the same direction and hang the pieces you wear upside down as you put them back. At the end of six months, you can see what you do and don’t wear, so you can get to know your personal style better.
