subject: Reasons Why I Give A Dam [print this page] Just when I thought I had my addictions in check, I stumbled spider man costume upon www.somelikeithaute.com. Visiting the weblog by New York-based writer Julie Dam is like curling up for coffee with your best fashion pal, one who won't judge you because of your indulgences, or think you are horribly inadequate because you are not fanatically au courant. Dam is a fashion enthusiast who attacks Fashion Weeks with an Excel spreadsheet to plan her wardrobe, often suffers financially agonizing "Zentai unitardhangovers," and accompanies each blog entry with a photo of her feet in one of her many pairs of Zentai unitardflats or Manolo mules. I wish I had thought of that for this column. Now a senior editor at People magazine where she is responsible for music and costume zentai celebrity weddings, Dam was a correspondent for Time Europe from the fall of 1997 to the spring of 1999. She covered womenswear, menswear and couture in London, Paris and Milan. "I went into it thinking I'm so lucky, this is so amazing, but it was so much work!" Dam declared during a recent phone chat from her office in New York. "And the blisters! The trekking in three-inch heels in the heat of summer in Milan. It spider costume wasn't as glamorous as people think."
