Orlando Dugi

• Name — Orlando Dugi • Occupation — Fashion designer • Known for — Diné (Navajo) fashion design, hand-beaded and embroidered garments

Dugi was raised on his family's sheep ranch on Grey Mountain the Navajo Nation in North-Central Arizona. He learned hand-sewing from his grandmothers at an early age. Later in the 7th grade, he took a home economics class where he learned how to use a sewing machine.

• Illustration — Orlando Dugi, Diné Warrior Twins 2022 • Illustration — Orlando Dugi, Gold Sun Bomber Jacket 2022 Dugi's work is influenced by both his Diné heritage as well as modernism. His work has been described as expressing "poetic interpretations of cultural teachings and songs without literally encroaching upon them. His fashion designs are often hand-stitched and hand-beaded, embroidered and embellished with feathers, and often incorporate elements of his silversmithing work. In 2018, Dugi presented his work at Style Fashion Week in New York City, where he "wowed the crowd" with his hand-beaded designs that have been described as "ethereal". Dugi has exhibited his work at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising, among other venues. His work was included in the traveling exhibition, Native Fashion Now, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum. The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian published a catalog in conjunction with his exhibition of the same title, It's in the Details: Kenneth Williams and Orlando Dugi. A documentary film titled, Becoming:Orlando Dugi, was directed by Kaela Waldstein. It has been presented in several film festivals, including the Human Rights Film Festival.