{"id":10978,"date":"2015-12-19T18:49:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/990000-newyorker-owenss-upbringing-was-by-no\/"},"modified":"2015-12-19T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T18:49:56","slug":"990000-newyorker-owenss-upbringing-was-by-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/990000-newyorker-owenss-upbringing-was-by-no\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/990000.tumblr.com\/post\/135508344376\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">990000<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2008\/03\/10\/elegant-monsters\">newyorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Owens\u2019s upbringing was by no means conventional, despite his parents\u2019 conservatism. His father\u2019s interests ranged from Buddhism to astrology, and he did not allow a television in the house until Owens was sixteen. He required his son to read canonical works of literature and philosophy\u2014Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, Confucius\u2014and to listen to classical music. \u201cI developed this method of child-rearing after reading Thomas Wolfe\u2019s statement \u2018You can\u2019t go home again,\u2019 \u201d John told me. \u201cI always interpreted that to mean it\u2019s because you outgrow things. Well, I always wanted to expose Rick to things he couldn\u2019t grow out of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a boy, Owens often resented this regimen of enforced cultural appreciation, but he has since come to value it. \u201cI have so much to be grateful for because of that,\u201d he told me. \u201cNo TV, and all those books and records. It\u2019s like we were on a desert island in Porterville, and all we had was Debussy, Wagner, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Loti. And they were stored in the basement, like a bunker. There\u2019s something very insulated about that life that has stayed with me. Because my life is still like that: I don\u2019t go outside of my personal interests, my personal nucleus of people, much.\u201d Owens attributes elements of his fashion aesthetic to the art and literature that his father exposed him to\u2014and he has tried to convince John of this. \u201cI told him, \u2018The reason I\u2019m so into this is because I remember you showing me Japanese haiku and Japanese images, books of Japanese pictures; that\u2019s why I have this austerity that appeals to me,\u2019 \u201d Owens recalled. \u201cI always loved how the Japanese appreciated things that were damaged; they would elevate the idea of something damaged and make it beautiful, and I said, \u2018That is so all about what I am. And that\u2019s because of you.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2008\/03\/10\/elegant-monsters\">Elegant Monsters<\/a> <\/b><br \/>Behind Rick Owens\u2019s rock-and-roll look.<br \/>Mar 10, 2008<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>990000: newyorker: Owens\u2019s upbringing was by no means conventional, despite his parents\u2019 conservatism. His father\u2019s interests ranged from Buddhism to astrology, and he did not allow a television in the house until Owens was sixteen. He required his son to read canonical works of literature and philosophy\u2014Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, Confucius\u2014and to listen to classical music. 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