They say you can tell a lot about a person from their shoes, Cyndi Lauper tells me. Hers are high black platforms worn on bare feet — old favourites by the New York-based designer Michael Kors, bringing glamour to her day-wear. Mine are workaday British-made brogues which bring . . . comfort. We laugh. We’re proof of her point.
Footwear is on our minds — as well as our feet. Lauper, 62, still working the post-punk anti-fashion vibe with pink and platinum statement hair and enough chains around her neck to secure a fleet of bicycles, flew into London from her native New York a few days earlier. She arrived in time to see the first preview performance of Kinky Boots, her musical based