Walt Cessna

New York, New York, United States

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Walt Cessna started his career in fashion as a Vogue obsessed thirteen year old who caught the eye of 7th Ave. silk knock off king & dress mogul Jack Mulqueen, who promptly put Walt to work as an assistant designer. At the same time he was Xeroxing his anti-fashion, pro-style musings in a crudely Xeroxed zine called The Key. Norma Kamali took him under her wing and for his 18th Birthday Walter was simultaneously written up in The New York Times as a “fast food fashion”journalist and sold his 2 year old zine to a huge publisher. All of this would come crashing to a halt less than a year later, but Cessna was able to transform himself from teen design sensation to fashion stylist/editor of such note-able publications like Per Lui, Lei, Italian Vogue, Vanity, Details, The Village Voice, Interview, I.D., Elle, Mirabella, Ray Gun & Paper. In between the next twenty odd years of this Cessna designed & self-produced a much acclaimed line of men’s women’s sportswear called Dom Casual which was carried in Macy’s & Patricia Field. He also styled & created original clothing for such performers as Nine Inch Nails, Milla Jovovich and The Crystal Method. After a few years of soul searching in San Francisco, Cessna returned to NYC in 03 to release the first (and last) issue of his art journal CSNA which featured the works of thirty emerging (Liz McGrath) & established (Ruben Toledo) artists without any text save for the credits. It was sponsored by Red Bull and the back cover features a photograph by Cessna featuring Red Bull in a rare print/advert collaboration. The cover featuring a topless model wearing a bondage mask made out of a Louis Vuitton bag resulted in a lawsuit from LV and Cessna having to forgo any financial gain or risk censoring the cover. In the name of art, Cessna gave up his profit and gave away ten thousand copies of the alternative publication for free. Forced to find a real job that actually could utilize his knowledge of fashion, art & publishing, he landed at Gallagher’s Fashion Archive where he spent the next 3 years managing the 12th St gallery/book shop while starting to take pictures again after giving away all of his film cameras in financial disgust in '98.

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