The Mob Wife Aesthetic Is Taking Over TikTok—Here’s How to Get the Look
18.01.2024 - 22:53
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, , and are all on board.The got its start last October when TikTok user and self-described “mob wife CEO” posted a video on the basics of the aesthetic.
(In short: black leather, vintage fur, messy updo, gold jewelry, .) But it really started taking off in the first week of 2024, when TikTokker honed in on the glamorous, messy appeal of teased hair, smoky makeup, and the-bigger-the-better outfits.It is ’90s supermodel glamour mixed with the cheeky, pattern-mixing excess of the early 2010s.
It is Mob Wives’ Big Ang (RIP) rasping “” and “” while smizing into a photographer’s lens.
It is reclaiming the fur and the quilted leather bag your mom might have in the back of her closet.
It is spilling a bit of Chianti on your all-black outfit and not really caring.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Italian-American culture—specifically that of New Jersey and New York—looms large over the mob wife aesthetic, which counts icons like and (who, it should be noted, are not tied to organized crime) among its influences.
The idea of the mafia gets involved because of the kind of character fur coats and animal prints evoke: Drea de Matteo and Edie Falco in The Sopranos, in Casino, and Lorraine Bracco in Goodfellas, to name a few, all partners of mobsters.
And we can’t ignore Mob Wives, the Staten Island-set reality series that reveled in black leather and designer sunglasses.
These are all outspoken women with highly specific tastes and the swagger to back them up.Even if you’re not sold on the look as a whole, you might have an appetite for each of its elements.
The look unites several microtrends—, faux-fur coats, , chunky gold jewelry—currently ripping through social media.
Style them together and you get the mob wife
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