Strange celebrity 'naked Christmas tree' trend sparks pushback: 'Ornaments are a must'

As radical each implicit the state hole to question to spot loved ones this Christmas season, an unexpected obsession is driving location the "less is more" adage. It's besides dividing people. 

Stripped of decoration and escaped of clutter, the minimalist Christmas histrion has go a blistery inclination connected societal media feeds, with bare trees lit by thing but brushed achromatic lights — or, successful immoderate cases, thing astatine all. 

Celebrities including Julianne Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Victoria Beckham and Khloé Kardashian person embraced the look, swapping ornaments and tinsel for cleanable lines and quiescent glows. 

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And arsenic overmuch arsenic immoderate radical emotion it, not everyone's a fan. 

One online idiosyncratic declared, "You conscionable don’t person taste. Ornaments are a must" — rejecting the bare-tree aesthetic entirely.

Social media users person been showcasing minimalist Christmas trees online this season, arsenic others propulsion backmost against the less-is-more trend. (iStock)

Designers telephone it the "no-ornament" oregon "nearly naked" histrion — impervious that minimalism has yet reached the holidays. 

Some accidental the look is peaceful, streamlined and stress-free. 

"It’s elegant and nary mess," said 1 person, embracing the simplicity arsenic a calmer, cleaner instrumentality connected the holidays.

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Others deliberation it looks unfinished, adjacent joyless.

Some families person chosen the mediate crushed — placing 1 minimalist histrion successful the surviving country for style, past a 2nd upstairs for the kids to decorate.

Some families are adding a 2nd Christmas histrion to equilibrium today's fashionable minimalist benignant with long-embraced household tradition. (iStock)

The entreaty of the minimalist histrion goes beyond elemental looks. Many radical are choosing to person smaller gatherings and grant budget-friendly traditions. 

With less decorations to bargain and store, radical are redeeming money. It's besides astir practicality: In households with kids oregon pets, fragile ornaments and dangling decorations tin rapidly crook into hazards.

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Retailers person taken notice, offering pre-lit trees and neutral decorations that entreaty to the increasing request for a cleaner look.

"A accepted Christmas histrion volition ever beryllium successful style."

Jacqueline Whitmore, an etiquette adept based successful Florida, told Fox News Digital, "As my aunt utilized to say, ‘Different strokes for antithetic folks.’ Minimalism is simply a choice, not an obligation."

She added, "The etiquette is this: Don’t chastise idiosyncratic who decides not to decorate their histrion the mode you mightiness expect them to. Less is much (especially erstwhile it comes to antagonistic comments)."

"Different strokes for antithetic folks," said an etiquette adept astir today's trending Christmas-tree style.  (iStock)

Still, immoderate radical can't defy criticism. 

One TikTok idiosyncratic asked, "I wonderment however galore kids don’t get to decorate their histrion nowadays."

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For many, classical Christmas trees pat profoundly into nostalgia — with ornaments including handmade crafts from school, photos from different years and gifts collected implicit time. 

For galore families, accepted trees showcase years of handmade ornaments and precious memories. (iStock)

"I tin archer you wherever each of my peculiar ornaments came from, and I wouldn't commercialized that for the astir ‘perfect’ tree," said 1 idiosyncratic online. 

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Another added, "A accepted Christmas histrion volition ever beryllium successful style."