"Parfleche" Dress

Designer Jamie Okuma Native American

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GRACE Attractiveness, charm, especially the pleasing quality associated with a special and refined fitness of proportion combined with an ease and beauty of movement:

Jamie Okuma began making this dress in 2018 and presented it during the fashion presentations at the annual Santa Fe Indian Market in 2021. Though part of her ready-to-wear line, Okuma compared the development of the design to the gradual and intuitive process of beadwork. The interplay of opacity and transparency combined with the delicacy of draped chiffon in the final design conveys a sense of spectral grace.

"Parfleche" Dress, Jamie Okuma (Enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Mission Indians, Shoshone-Bannock, Wailaki, Luiseño, and Okinawan, born California, 1977), silk, synthetic, American

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