Elena Vanden Abeele is an art historian specialising in nineteenth-century fashion and textiles, with a particular emphasis on the role of women. 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.
