Cat Dahm, a fashion designer, shares her unexpected journey to Europe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
In February of 2020, as a new pathogen was beginning to make its way around the world, Cat Dahm was in the process of moving to Europe . An Indiana native, Dahm had spent years working in branding in New York City, but the lifestyle was starting to wear on her. As a sideline, she had launched a fashion brand, Rabot, with a friend, and it seemed like time for a new adventure. So at age 27, Dahm quit her job and flew to Paris with her friend.
“We were going to stay in Paris for a month, and then I was going to go to Berlin,” she explains over Zoom—Berlin being a relatively affordable home base for a fashion designer. But fate had other plans. On Dahm’s first night in France, she struck up a conversation about jazz with a cute waiter. He invited her to see jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, and they began spending time together. “But in the background was all this, like, ramping-up-of-Covid conversation,” Dahm says. “And then, for the first time since World War II, they closed the borders between all the European countries
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