Honorine Deschrijver[1] was born as an extramarital child to a Ghent maid on 5 March 1887.

[2][3] She grew up in the Brugse Poort in Ghent and moved to Brussels at the age of 14.

Léon Spilliaert portrayed her in a double portrait with her husband (Ostend, Mu.ZEE); Edgard Tytgat portrayed her in the painting "Remembrance of a Sunday" getting out of a boat (Deurle, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens).

[9][10] Deschrijver's designs for women's clothing were distinguished by modernism and originality.

Her career ran from the early interwar period to the 1960s, but she enjoyed her largest success during the Roaring Twenties.