Her face was on covers of many local fashion and glossy magazines in Yugoslavia, as well as the Dutch Vogue.
In 2010, she opened a showroom in downtown Belgrade, presenting handmade pieces for interior decoration with her signature.
In early 2012, she exhibited her new furniture collection called Jazz, which was presented at the prestigious Belgrade gallery Progres.
[2][3] Elena was married to Jugoslav Karić, an owner of a real-estate and development company in the United Kingdom, Russia and Serbia.
[1] She has four children: Luka, Andrej (died in 2009), Matija and Simon; two of them with Predrag Mijatović.