Hong Kong, March 16 -- It's time to embrace the clutter in your home. We're calling it 'cluttercore'.

After the world's infatuation with Marie Kondo-style minimalism and tidying up, here comes the "cluttercore" trend, a joyful, happy mess that is, above all, comfortable and reassuring. And guilt-free to boot. Could it also be drawing on nostalgic tendencies?

Tidying up, clearing out, organising? If you're sick of that, you're not the only one. After having done the spring cleaning during the first-wave lockdown and folded your socks in the way of Japanese organisational queen Marie Kondo during the second round of stay-at-home orders, well perhaps now you're over this sanitised existence, which some see as going hand in hand with restri...