AFS

Clothing, Fashion

…just another stupid acronym, this time standing for Another Fucking Snob.

This guy Nicky Haslam claims to be an arbiter of “class” or more often of what constitutes “low class” or “common.”  Like most of his ilk, he’s simply a waspish little poseur, this time with his list of things or people he finds “common”:

  1. Selling art
  2. Artsplaining
  3. Sistine Chapel
  4. Christie’s
  5. Downlit art
  6. ‘Art is subjective’
  7. Silent auctions
  8. Children by Renoir
  9. Symbolism
  10. Hanging photographs
  11. ‘Can’t see what you see in that’
  12. David Hockney (can’t paint for toffee but can draw like a god)
  13. Francis Bacon is the campest artist since Gustav Moreau
  14. Waldemar Januszczak’s real name
  15. Giverny
  16. The Mona Lisa
  17. Oil paintings of big game
  18. Oversized garden art
  19. Studio visits
  20. Philistine
  21. Genres
  22. Frieze
  23. White
  24. Trauma
  25. Interpreted
  26. Banksy
  27. Validation
  28. ‘Have you got anything to fit this space?’
  29. Meaningful
  30. ‘I’m afraid it’s reserved’
  31. Kate Moss
  32. Tapestry wall hangings
  33. Have you noticed there is no ‘school’ of Lucien Freud
  34. Saint Laurent
  35. Buying art at weekends
  36. The Biennale

Most of it flies right over my head (which would probably make him add me to his list), but whatever.  (And I’m sorry, but art is very much subjective, or else there’d only be Thomas Kincaid’s paintings hanging on every wall and in every gallery.)

All that said, however, there is nothing that shouts “common” to me more than this choice of wardrobe:

…which happens to be what this little tit was wearing when he oh-so proudly displayed his latest tea towel.

10 comments

  1. “Have you noticed there is no ‘school’ of Lucien Freud”

    And thank goodness for that!

    (shudders at the thought of “Naked Man”)

  4. > …just another stupid acronym

    No, it isn’t.

    NASA is an acronym. NSA is not.

    And you call yourself a grammar nazi.

  5. Clicked the link because I shouldn’t care, but this time I did. When I saw his picture I thought he looked like a dick-smoker. Reading the article proved me right.

    My ex-wife watched a show called ‘Queer eye for the Straight Guy” where they’d fairy up some dude in a flannel shirt, and the whole time I thought, “Why would I let you little douchebags, influence anything I wore/did?”

    Maybe voting Labour makes you look common as well. I guess at least we share a dislike for Banksy.

  6. Looking at the picture, my first thought was “His mama sure dresses him funny.”

  7. If I may be so bold, may I offer a possible correction:
    “Like most of his ilk,”
    how about “Like most of his oik?”

  8. “All that said, however, there is nothing that shouts “common” to me more than this choice of wardrobe:”

    Clown shoes?

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