#080321: Can you really dress to be invisible?

Taking back the desire to blend in, honoring the one to stand out

I’ll never forget the opening line of an essay from a 2014 issue of T Magazine. It read, “Invisible. That is what Phoebe Philo’s clothes make you feel,” and went on to call feeling invisible a relief, a new form of power dressing.

This burgeoning “form” sunk in and fossilized, like wet clay surrounded by a piercing stick, and I agreed implicitly even if…