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Georgette Benisty was born and raised in Casablanca and has spent many years living and working in the United States. Named for the French fabric Georgette, with its sturdy and diaphanous qualities, the artist, as a child, would playfully enter an imaginative fantasy world, envisioning the gowns with which she would begin her career in fashion. Eventually she successfully marketed her own line of gowns, through Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and in her own atelier on Newbury Street in Boston.
If handmade lace collages and overt flights of fancy characterized Ms. Benisty's early work in dresses and gowns, a brave self examination and willingness to pursue her deeper roots then led her to go beyond haute couture. As her work and vision in the world of fashion matured, the artist began stitching together broken cloth fragments as she undertook a vivid exploration, drawing from the colors, rhythms, architecture, and antiquities of her native land. The doll figures she assembled as a result, embody her life story.