How Aotearoa dresses: The fabulous footwear at the premiere of Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots the musical has landed successful Aotearoa, making the Civic Theatre successful Auckland its location for a fewer weeks earlier moving to St James Theatre successful Wellington.

The amusement is each astir acceptance and solemnisation of queer look and did not disappoint successful the costuming department; and neither did the reddish carpet astatine its New Zealand premiere, held successful Auckland connected Thursday night.

Pou Tiaki reporter, Eda Tang, went on to instrumentality successful the benignant and inspiration from the evening.

Pinkie Promise, Jimmy Webb and Jason Parker

Pinkie Promise, Jimmy Webb and Jason Parker came to enactment their housemate, who is the pistillate pb successful the show.

“She is simply a freakin’ superstar,” said Promise. “A dependable of an angel,” adds Webb, who is keeping it tidy successful H&M and immoderate squeaky cleanable achromatic Vans.

Promise is wearing a rhinestone formal from House of Priscilla successful Sydney, with a fabulous marshmallow pinkish overgarment from Shein.

“My full look is inspired by Kinky Boots the musical,” said Parker. “I’m giving red, connected pink, connected red”.

What’s the aesthetic of Kinky Boots? “Leather and gay!” replied Parker.

Kieran Bennett and Nicky Hopkins

Kieran Bennett is wearing each Dangerfield but for his Hallensteins shoes and Nick Von K ring, talented to him from Nicky Hopkins who he’s travel to ticker with.

Bennett says the taste value of Dangerfield is “very gay, precise homosexual [and] precise queer”.

Hopkins is wearing mostly Asos, featuring silky pinkish trousers paired with a achromatic fur overgarment talented to them by a friend.

They marque a polished connection with a pointed achromatic boot. “I emotion them, they’re not precisely the astir comfortable, but hey”. Hopkins says they often marque sacrifices of comfortableness successful the sanction of fashion.

Jett Iles

11-year-old Jett Iles plays young Charlie successful the philharmonic connected alternating nights. “I’m wearing a sparkly tuxedo and achromatic pants and reddish shoes.” Not lone is helium dressed for the premiere but besides the aft enactment connected a schoolhouse night.

His favourite happening astir the evening was watching the amusement and seeing his friends connected stage. He is looking guardant to the upcoming 18 performances helium has done the season.

James Luck

James Luck, besides known arsenic Elektra Shock, is wearing his patent reddish leather, thigh precocious kinky boots which helium usually wears for drag. “They’re besides the boots that you’ll spot successful a batch of the promo images.”

“It’s similar they said successful the show, it’s hard to find a footwear that tin enactment a man’s weight,” said Luck. “A batch of these boots are really made for rod performers and strippers and radical who are truly dancing heavy successful level boots – truthful they’re made with a batch much integrity than conscionable your mean mean shoe.

“These are precise supportive and really precise comfy. I tin footwear and twirl and leap into a divided nary problem.”

Luck’s proposal for walking successful precocious bottommost boots is to “stand up bully and tall, and locomotion heel-toe.

“Don’t beryllium frightened of the boot. It’s each astir confidence”.

Chelsea Kelly and Jess Rogers

Blazers mean concern for Chelsea Kelly and Jess Rogers, who attended the premiere to enactment and ticker friends performing successful the show.

“We’re going for a Kinky Boots look,” said Jess. “We’ve got the achromatic boots, immoderate sparkles”. Jess already had each of these items successful her wardrobe.

Like Jess’ sparkle tassel top, Chelsea’s I.AM.GIA sparkle pants are being worn retired for the archetypal time. She pairs them with a matching sparkly bra: a reliable goodie successful her wardrobe that she’s worn to festivals successful the past.