After studying fashion design for one year at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, I realised it was primarily the history of fashion that captured my interest. In 1998 I graduated with a Licentiate in Art Sciences andArchaeology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), with a thesis on the rise of Belgian fashion design in the late 1980s. With a grant from the Flemish Community, I enrolled as an auditor in the Department of Art, Music and Theatre – Art History at the University of Bologna (UNIBO). After working in fashion retail, I joined the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp as a Research Assistant. With a fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation, I enrolled in 2003 in the graduate programme in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice (curatorial focus) at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. I obtained an MA in 2006 with a qualifying paper on the Brussels couture house Norine (ca. 1916–1952). The following year I received a Dehousse fellowship to continue my research on Norine as a doctoral candidate in Fine Arts at the Association University Antwerp and Antwerp University Colleges. In that capacity I taught Fashion History at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2008. In the years that followed, my affiliation shifted from doctoral candidate in History at the University of Antwerp (UA) to Joint PhD in History (UA) and Art Sciences (VUB). After several years of interruption, during which I worked primarily in fashion retail while continuing my research and dissemination on Norine, I resumed my doctoral activities and enrolled in 2021 as a Joint PhD candidate in History (UA) and Art Sciences (Ghent University). From 2013 to 2020 I was an auditor in Textile Restoration-Conservation at the Academy of Visual Arts Anderlecht (Brussels). In 2015 I was co-curator of the exhibition The Belgians: An Unexpected Fashion Story at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels and co-editor of the accompanying book. That same year I began teaching costume and fashion history at the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre in Brussels, which I continue to do. I also taught costume and fashion history at the Ghent University School of Arts (KASK) from 2019 to 2021, and at the College of Art and Design, Brussels (CAD) in the second semester of 2024.