{"id":26534,"date":"2010-04-18T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/before-the-cheesy-namesake-clothing-and\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T03:16:07","slug":"before-the-cheesy-namesake-clothing-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/before-the-cheesy-namesake-clothing-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Howard the master painter and striper also known as Von Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Before the cheesy namesake clothing and accessories line that threatens to destroy his cred forever, there was the self-invented and slightly mad genius Kenny Howard\u2013 better known as Von Dutch. He was a real Renaissance man\u2013 legendary custom painter, artist, motorcycle mechanic, and a skilled metal worker who hand-crafted his own knives and guns. He had a strong aversion to money and felt it was detrimental to his art\u2013 which makes the clothing line even more of an ironic abomination. \u201cI make a point of staying right at the edge of poverty. I don\u2019t have a pair of pants without a hole in them, and the only pair of boots I have are on my feet. I don\u2019t mess around with unnecessary stuff, so I don\u2019t need much money. I believe it\u2019s meant to be that way. There\u2019s a \u2018struggle\u2019 you have to go through, and if you make a lot of money it doesn\u2019t make the \u2018struggle\u2019 go away. It just makes it more complicated. If you keep poor, the struggle is simple.\u201c \u2013Von Dutch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/06\/kenny-howard-the-pinstriper-known-as-von-dutch\/\">KENNY HOWARD | THE MASTER PAINTER &amp; STRIPER ALSO KNOWN AS VON DUTCH \u00ab The Selvedge Yard<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the cheesy namesake clothing and accessories line that threatens to destroy his cred forever, there was the self-invented and slightly mad genius Kenny Howard\u2013 better known as Von Dutch. He was a real Renaissance man\u2013 legendary custom painter, artist, motorcycle mechanic, and a skilled metal worker who hand-crafted his own knives and guns. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1263,42,1409,1144,2004,1410,1408],"class_list":["post-26534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-branding","tag-design","tag-pin-striping","tag-story","tag-teaching-tumblr","tag-vernacular-culture","tag-von-dutch","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6TY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45387,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26534\/revisions\/45387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}