More than four decades after she arrived at Coney Island with Annie Leibovitz to shoot the cover of She's So Unusual, Cyndi Lauper is parting with the wardrobe that made her a style icon. Bonhams New York is offering dozens of her stage-worn outfits, instruments, props and personal artifacts in two October sales: "Cyndi Lauper: Suitcase of Memories, Part I," a live auction on October 22, and Part II, running online through October 23. The lots read like a greatest-hits of 1980s pop culture. The red plaid dress Lauper wore to the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 carries an estimate of $800 to $1,200; the leopard-print pajamas seen in the "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" video are estimated at $500 to $700; and the metal bra from the "True Colors" video at $1,000 to $1,500. The newspaper skirt ensemble she wore on the cover of 1986's True Colors — made by stapling strips of newsprint onto a hoop skirt — is estimated at $1,000 to $2,000. Also on offer are designer pieces by Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, the bejeweled McQueen cape she wore to the 2014 Grammy Awards, and the rainbow headdress from her turn as grand marshal of the 2003 West Hollywood Pride Parade. Lauper approached fashion the way she approached music: as an art project. A one-time art major at Johnson State College, she has described hair as sculpture and Jackson Pollock as an influence, calling her looks "living art" — color that could be worn, danced in and lived in. Bonhams's head of private and iconic collections says every outfit was extremely intentional, part of the music and the whole inspiration, even when it looked fun and crazy. For the singer, now 73, the sale is a reminder of an era when fashion and rock'n'roll merged, before, as she puts it, things became corporate. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year — where she was honored by Chappell Roan in a replica of the newspaper skirt — Lauper hopes the auction inspires a few more rule-breakers.