“Your psyche has infinite space, whereas your apartment and your closet have limited space,” Kaliardos says like a true New Yorker. Storage and Organization Methods Are Not the SolutionThe author’s point here is not to discount the satisfaction of, say, all the lip pencils in one place, all the eyeshadow brushes in another it’s just that the edit doesn’t end there. As he sees it, “decluttering often allows you to make mental space for the new to enter, whether that’s a new relationship or a new job or anything you need”-like a must-have mascara in place of the collection of dried-out ones. There’s that aforementioned “joy” to be found, not to mention real peace of mind. (It’s an understandable job hazard, when the average workday involves shoots with Steven Meisel and Mario Testino, and when the essentials run the gamut “from gold body paint to prosthetic stuff to glue-on sequins to a thousand eyelashes.”) For Kaliardos, who recently finished a top-to-bottom organization of his makeup bag, the benefits to paring-down go well beyond the physical. “I actually threw out my shoulder last year because my kit was just so heavy!” he confesses with a laugh. This is a philosophy that the makeup artist James Kaliardos can get behind. With spring around the corner, Discarding might as well be a catalyst for your own fearless cleanout, starting with the overflow of lipsticks, sheet masks, and face oils taking over the bathroom cabinet. Kondo, who encountered Tatsumi’s book in junior high school, called it a “catalyst” for her own tidying empire. Before Marie Kondo valorized decluttering in a series of pop-housekeeping books, there was Nagisa Tatsumi, whose treatise on the subject-published in 2000 as Suteru! Gijutsu-arrives in its first English translation this week as The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy.
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