En ren flicka eller en maffiafru? En komparativ analys av clean girl och mob wife
(2024) MODK63 20241Division of Fashion Studies
- Abstract
- We are constantly introduced to new microtrends through the fast-paced digital landscape that we are all a part of. Barbiecore, Soft girl, Scandi-girl, Clean girl and Mob wife are examples of a few recent ones. These trends that mainly flourish on social media create ideals for women on how to dress and act online and offline. But how are the microtrends of clean girl and mob wife being received?
This essay aims to discover how fashion students at Lunds University perceive the clean girl and mob wife aesthetics with a photo elicitation method that reveals their tastes and connotations related to the aesthetics. The discussion between the informants proceeds from photos they think represent a clean girl and a mob wife. The main research... (More) - We are constantly introduced to new microtrends through the fast-paced digital landscape that we are all a part of. Barbiecore, Soft girl, Scandi-girl, Clean girl and Mob wife are examples of a few recent ones. These trends that mainly flourish on social media create ideals for women on how to dress and act online and offline. But how are the microtrends of clean girl and mob wife being received?
This essay aims to discover how fashion students at Lunds University perceive the clean girl and mob wife aesthetics with a photo elicitation method that reveals their tastes and connotations related to the aesthetics. The discussion between the informants proceeds from photos they think represent a clean girl and a mob wife. The main research points are to find which attributes the informants think are required to live up to the clean girl- and mob wife- aesthetics, but also if they think it is good or bad taste and what femininity clean girl and mob wife represent. The essay found that the aesthetics are depicted in different ways based on the informants' answers. By implementing theories of Pierre Bourdieu's Symbolic Capital, Taste and Habitus, Mimi Schippers's understanding of Pariah- and Hegemonic Femininities and the dichotomy of clean/unclean by Frykman and Löfgren, the essay discusses the microtrends with the perspectives of lifestyle, femininity, personal taste, social hierarchy, hygiene, and the embodiment of clean girl and mob wife through the social and physical body. (Less)
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- author
- Pilman, Agnes LU and Ernlund, Elsa LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MODK63 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Microtrends, Mob wife, Clean girl, Pariah femininity, Hegemonic femininity, Personal taste, Symbolic capital, Social and physical body.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9171010
- date added to LUP
- 2025-05-22 09:38:00
- date last changed
- 2025-05-22 09:38:00
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abstract = {{We are constantly introduced to new microtrends through the fast-paced digital landscape that we are all a part of. Barbiecore, Soft girl, Scandi-girl, Clean girl and Mob wife are examples of a few recent ones. These trends that mainly flourish on social media create ideals for women on how to dress and act online and offline. But how are the microtrends of clean girl and mob wife being received?
This essay aims to discover how fashion students at Lunds University perceive the clean girl and mob wife aesthetics with a photo elicitation method that reveals their tastes and connotations related to the aesthetics. The discussion between the informants proceeds from photos they think represent a clean girl and a mob wife. The main research points are to find which attributes the informants think are required to live up to the clean girl- and mob wife- aesthetics, but also if they think it is good or bad taste and what femininity clean girl and mob wife represent. The essay found that the aesthetics are depicted in different ways based on the informants' answers. By implementing theories of Pierre Bourdieu's Symbolic Capital, Taste and Habitus, Mimi Schippers's understanding of Pariah- and Hegemonic Femininities and the dichotomy of clean/unclean by Frykman and Löfgren, the essay discusses the microtrends with the perspectives of lifestyle, femininity, personal taste, social hierarchy, hygiene, and the embodiment of clean girl and mob wife through the social and physical body.}},
author = {{Pilman, Agnes and Ernlund, Elsa}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{En ren flicka eller en maffiafru? En komparativ analys av clean girl och mob wife}},
year = {{2024}},
}