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What Happens When You Start Dressing for the Position You Want

Queer Personal Stylist Kati Kons stands on a dock in Boston wearing a black shorts suit set with the jacket hanging over her shoulder and a bowler bag in the other hand. Styled with a pink and purple silk painterly shirt and a black silk cummerbund.

There’s a moment when you stop dressing for the role you’re in and start dressing for the future you’re building. And that moment changes everything.

This shift isn’t about faking it, it’s about alignment. It’s about dressing in ways that reflect your aspirations, your ambitions, and your authentic self—especially if that self hasn’t always been affirmed in professional spaces.

The Psychology of Style: What Is Enclothed Cognition?

This transformation is rooted in a psychological phenomenon called enclothed cognition—the idea that what you wear influences the way you think, feel, and show up.
Your posture is better.
Your confidence increases.
Your behavior has an extra ounce of energy.
You start performing as the version of you you’ve been working toward.

And people start to notice.

Style as a Tool for Visibility

For queer professionals, entrepreneurs, and creative leaders, dressing for the job you want isn’t about conforming to outdated norms. It’s about reclaiming visibility, sovereignty, and safety. It’s about stepping into a visual identity that reflects your values, your brilliance, and your next chapter.

And that’s what my Style on Retainer program is all about.

Introducing: Style on Retainer

Style on Retainer is a long-term personal styling program that helps you develop a custom, aligned wardrobe to support how you want to lead, create, and move through the world.

We don’t microanalyze your every garment together like most personal stylists do, rather, we are strategizing how style can elevate you in your life on a macro level.

Whether you’re:

  • Building your own business
  • Dreaming of the C-suite
  • Or just tired of shrinking yourself into outdated professional dress codes,

This program is made for you.

You’re not just changing your clothes. You’re changing your life.

There are only 4 spots left in the Style on Retainer program, a transformational, one-on-one style experience for queer professionals and ambitious creatives ready to be seen, respected, and remembered.

Claim your seat now — because the version of you you’re becoming is already waiting.

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