Draft:Kegham Djeghalian Jr

Kegham Djeghalian Jr (born 1984) is an Egyptian-born multidisciplinary artist, creative director, stylist, and academic.

Early life and education
Djeghalian was born in Cairo, where his father studied dentistry, to an Armenian family who had arrived from Palestine. His grandfather and namesake was a notable photographer who stayed in Gaza until his death in 1981, three years before Djeghalian Jr was born.

Djeghalian graduated from the American University in Cairo in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Visual Arts with a Minor in Theatre Costume Design. This was followed by postgraduate studies in Visual Culture and Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, which he completed in 2008, courses at Central Saint Martins and the London College of Fashion in 2010, and later a Master of Arts (MA) in Image Design from the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) in 2015.

Career
In 2016, Djeghalian joined the Paris College of Art as a professor of art direction and the fashion editorial in the MA Fashion Film and Photography programme. After giving guest lectures in Fashion Design at his alma mater the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), he was made pedagogic director of the IFM's Master in Image Design programme in 2018.

In 2020, Djeghalian was appointed creative director of the Egyptian footwear brand Zee (زي).

In 2022, Djeghalian became a professor of Fashion Studies & Design at the German International University (GIU)'s Faculty of Design in Cairo.