Elena Vanden Abeele is an art historian specialising in nineteenth-century fashion and textiles, with a particular emphasis on the role of women in the arts. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in art history from KU Leuven in 2023 and completed an internship at the Fashion & Lace Museum in Brussels. Currently, Elena works as a scientific assistant for the Belgian Fashion Research Network Revers at Ghent University. She has co-authored an article in the journal Volkskunde on the modernisation of lace education in Flanders in the early twentieth century.
