The Viral Mob Wife Aesthetic Enters K-Pop With LE SSERAFIM

TikTok's latest fashion obsession has turned from the clean girl aesthetic to the mob wife aesthetic, and K-Pop stylists are quickly adapting.

What is this mob wife aesthetic, you ask? The mob wife aesthetic is characterized by luxury - extravagant jackets (usually fur and hopefully faux fur), bold prints, heavy jewelry, and anything but "clean girl" makeup. It derives from the trope of the eponymous "mob wife" - confident, ambitious, unapologetic, from crime shows set back in the day, most prominently "The Sopranos," which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and "The Godfather." Th

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