Lupita Nyong’o Always Lands On Her Feet

glamour.com:

By Photography by It’s mid-April and Lupita Nyong’o is wearing a pair of old Christmas socks. Granted, she had no real reason to not wear this particular pair of socks during the short flight from Las Vegas—where she’d just completed a two-day stint at the movie trade show CinemaCon—to Los Angeles for her Glamour global interview.

But as irony would have it, our meeting calls for her to take off her black platform ankle boots. “Of course,” she says. “My socks are so silly today.”We’re spending the afternoon at , a coffee shop where you can mingle with adoptable rescue cats, so the floors must be kept clean.

The 41-year-old has arrived straight from the airport, looking every inch the fashion icon in skinny black jeans and a T-shirt, with Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses and a Chanel 22 handbag.

The Christmas socks never make an official appearance, however—instead we’re offered the option to spray our shoes with disinfectant.The idea to meet at a cat café came from Nyong’o’s Glamour photo shoot a few weeks ago, where she brought her own rescue cat, a two-year-old orange tabby named Yoyo, on set for some portraits. “Today we actually learn if I like cats or just my cat,” she says as we walk into the open playroom.