MegaGlam® is the umbrella brand for kHyal’s product design, surface and fashion design, illustration and art.
MegaGlam was launched to overarch kHyal’s character design explosion and the product lines of art, design and fashion they have spawned since 2010 when she first created the leader of the pack — a pink, mischievous weather-loving squirrel aptly named The Weather sKwirl.
kHyal drew a digital comic featuring The Weather sKwirl™ every single day for two years straight. The original blog can be found HERE.
MegaGlam also includes lifestyle sub-brands MegaGlam Action Apparel™ featuring Super Fake Cult™, I Do What I Want™, Cake Pony™ and REJECTwear™ and a product line that has been featured at Art Basel Miami/ Miami Arts Week, Frieze Art Week New York, Armory Arts Week; and pop-up and gallery events throughout the US, Europe and Asia.
kHyal’s original designs have been featured in The New York Times’ T Magazine, Nylon, HBO, Vice News, FASHION, Gothamist, FOX News, CBS and NBC evening news, and CBS Sunday Morning. Her work was chosen by Kelly Cutrone of America’s Top Model as a favorite for an art-as-fashion exhibition and corresponding fashion show. And, when heavy-hitting songwriter, Diane Warren, was up for a Grammy Award for a hit song she wrote for Lady Gaga, she commissioned kHyal to create a custom look. MegaGlam art and products have been featured at P!Q Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center–New York, Universal Walk–Orlando and Ceasar’s Palace–Las Vegas, Con Artist Collective—New York and EGGO Arte–Buenos Aires. kHyal has also been a featured artist with P!Q at New York Comic Con.
kHyal blurs the lines of where commercial products and design meld with fashion and art — read more HERE. To see more, visit MegaGlam on Instagram or visit the MegaGlam Shop. (We’ve downsized the online store after releasing dozens of exclusive products to focus on custom work — check back for updates!) Take a tour of her art at kHyal.net.
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY
“Strong Voice.”
— Jerry Saltz, Art Critic, Pulitzer Prize recipient for Art Criticism
“A tour de force. kHyal is an innovator impervious to boundaries.”
— Kari Britta Lorenson, KnotWe, NYC
“Always authentic, original and ABSOLUTE KHYAL!!”
— Henry Boxer, Henry Boxer Gallery, London
“kHyal: artist? designer? her life is art, her life is design.”
— Solange Guez, Solange Guez Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires
“Completely original.”
— Frank Maresca, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NYC
“Love your work! #funfunfun”
— @gapingvoid
“Fashion fearlessness …”
— Phil Birbaum, The Spectacled, Los Angeles
“TIME for art that is an expression of pure joy and fun. She is the ART machine TRIBE leader.”
— Kim Depole, 222 Bowery, New York
“Amazing, the way a variety of artistic disciplines — fine art, fashion, street art, etc. — find their way into your practice of creating great designs!”
— Terri C. Smith, Franklin Street Works
kHyal’s art is in the personal collections of:
- Jerry Saltz, Art Critic
- Carl Hammer, Carl Hammer Gallery
- Margaret Bodell, Umbrella Arts
- Carole Guevin, Netdiver.net
- Joan Ankrum, Ankrum Gallery
- Jules Glazer, Collector
ARMORY ARTS WEEK
Press coverage by BFA featuring artist JR, kHyal and gallerist Jeffrey Deitch
Photographer: Carl Timpone/BFA.com
OUTSIDER ART FAIR
Press coverage by Gothamist, Getty Images, La Gazette Drouot
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