After one year of fashion design studies at the Royal Academy of Antwerp I realized it was more fashion’s history that struck my interest. In 1998 I graduated Licentiate in Art Sciences and Archaeology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) with a thesis on the flourishing of Belgian fashion design late 1980s. With a scholarship from the Flemish Community I enrolled as an auditing student at the Department of Arts, Music and Theatre – Art History emphasis at the University of Bologna (UNIBO). After having worked in fashion retail, I took up the position of Scientific Assistant at the Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp. With a scholarship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation, I enrolled in 2003 in the graduate program in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice (curatorial emphasis) at the Fashion Institute of Technology of New York. I received an MA in 2006 with a qualifying paper on the Brussels couture house Norine (c. 1916-1952). The following year, I was granted a Dehousse fellowship to further my research on Norine as a PhD Candidate in Fine Arts at the Associatie Universiteit Antwerpen and Hogescholen Antwerpen. In this capacity, I lectured Fashion History at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp in 2008. The ensuing years, my affiliations changed from PhD Candidate in History at the Universiteit Antwerpen (UA) to Joint PhD in History (UA) and Art Sciences (VUB). After some years of interruption, mainly working in fashion retail yet continuing research dissemination on Norine, I resumed my doctoral activities and enrolled as a Joint PhD Candidate in History (UA) and Art Sciences (Universiteit Gent) in 2021. From 2013 to 2018, I was as an auditing student in Textile Restoration-Conservation at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Anderlecht (Brussels). In 2015, I co-curated the exhibition The Belgians: An Unexpected Fashion Story at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels and co-edited the book of the same name. That same year, I started lecturing costume and fashion history at the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre in Brussels, and continue to do so today. I also lectured costume and fashion history at the Hogeschool Gent School of Arts (KASK) from 2019 to 2021 and took on the same position at the College of Art and Design, Brussels (CAD) as of January 2024.