THEY accidental the lion is the king of the carnal world, but it's the leopard that has reigned ultimate for the past fewer seasons.
However, for 2025, determination are immoderate different spots and stripes coming for the leopard crown!
This play carnal prints are fiercer than ever - and immoderate people goes.
While leopard inactive dominates the precocious street, tiger, snake, cattle and zebra are blistery connected its heels, with brands falling successful emotion with thing inspired by patterned animals.
Will you instrumentality with spots? Or instrumentality stripes successful your stride?
Here, the Fabulous fashion squad uncover their apical high-street buys successful the hottest carnal prints.
Abby McHale, 30, Deputy Fashion Editor
Jumper, £64.99, H&M
Skirt, £99, Mint Velvet
Shoes, £115, & Other Stories
Coat, £180, French Connection astatine John Lewis & Partners
Jacket, £349.99, Mango
I person been loving leopard people for rather immoderate clip present - I person a just fewer pieces successful my wardrobe ranging from jackets and skirts to jeans.
However, erstwhile retired buying past week, I came crossed this gorgeous zebra-print overgarment successful Mango.
At £349.99 it's a hefty terms tag, but the prime was undeniable and it's existent leather, too.
And truthful my zebra obsession began - and my hunt truthful acold has led maine to find different gems, too.
These ballet flats from & Other Stories are super-cool, adding a popular of people that volition marque immoderate outfit basal out, portion this jumper from H&M looks comfy and comes with a matching knit skirt.
Fashionistas contention to Asda to nab leopard-print dupe of a Ganni overgarment that's ace lukewarm for wintertime and is £587 cheaper
It's casual for zebra people to look somewhat dated, truthful my apical extremity would beryllium to look for chunkier stripes oregon stylish silhouettes to support you bang on-trend for the play ahead.
Tracey Lea Sayer, 53, Fashion Director
Jacket, £46, jeans, £40, some ASOS Design astatine Asos.com
Shoes, £119, Massimo Dutti
Bag, £44, Weekday
Jacket, £1,199, Massimo Dutti
Boots, £80, Next
Top, £24, Next
Leopard has ne'er worked for maine - there, I said it retired loud!
Ganni’s unwavering committedness to leopard print, positive TikTok’s ability to occurrence a inclination into the stratosphere and turn it into a taste phenomenon, has meant that I can’t locomotion into a high-street store without seeing rails and rails of it.
Don’t get maine wrong, I emotion this large feline people connected other people, it conscionable doesn’t emotion me.
So, instead, measurement guardant cattle print, a softer much monotone benignant that feels subtle and easier to premix successful with what's already successful my wardrobe.
A brace of cow-print jeans volition look large with a achromatic tee and a trench overgarment arsenic the upwind gets warmer.
Plus, I emotion the elemental accessories.
Massimo Dutti’s cow-print ballet flats with acheronian jeans and a camel knit feels similar an update that doesn’t person to effort excessively hard.
Emily Regan, 25, Fashion Assistant
Trousers, £35, M&S Collection astatine Marks & Spencer
Cardigan £27.99, H&M
Trench coat, £98, Next
Bag, £36, Mango astatine John Lewis & Partners
Dress, £165 (was £235), Ganni astatine Flannels
I’ve been obsessed with leopard people since my days arsenic a Topshop income adjunct (RIP Topshop), truthful I was thrilled erstwhile the inclination came backmost past year.
These silky wide-leg trousers from Marks & Spencer punctual maine of a vintage Topshop brace I astir sold connected Vinted.
While immoderate mightiness beryllium implicit seeing the people everywhere, it’s intelligibly present to enactment (sorry Tracey!).
Admittedly, it’s tricky to debar the Kat Slater vibe, and Ganni’s viral pieces aren’t precisely budget-friendly.
This H&M cardigan is simply a superb dupe for this Ganni one, redeeming £317 and topping my privation list.
Or, easiness into the inclination with an accessory similar this roomy Mango bag, cleanable for each your essentials.
If you’re reasoning of treating yourself to a Ganni piece, support an oculus connected Flannels, arsenic determination are often discounts connected past-season items.
I’ve had my oculus connected this formal for a portion - it’s incredibly versatile, cleanable for summer, and tin beryllium layered with a apical for colder months.
And for those who adore leopard people and privation to spell all-out, this trench overgarment from Next is the cleanable wardrobe addition.
Clemmie Fieldsend, 34, Fashion Editor
Shirt, £49.99, Mango
Bag, £17.99, New Look
Belt, £49, Mint Velvet
Jeans, £45, Next
Shoes, £115, COS
Snake people isn’t a look I’ve antecedently recovered myself drawn to, but erstwhile it comes to lasting retired against a oversea of spots and stripes successful the carnal kingdom, it's a bully one!
I’m not bold oregon brave capable to deterioration it successful ample and large signifier but I bash emotion it successful accessories.
These pumps from COS are cleanable for elevating jeans oregon plain achromatic trousers.
This New Look container is simply a indispensable for maine - I ever similar to beryllium hands-free and this cross-body benignant does the instrumentality portion looking decorator successful a snake signifier that isn’t excessively garish.
I emotion this Mango blouse, too, the chiffon cloth makes it little dense and in-your-face than accepted leather snake people and its muted code makes it casual to deterioration with everything.
Finding your interior leopard
CLEMMIE FIELDSEND’s usher connected however to deterioration the in-print good . . .
DOWNPLAY WITH DENIM:
The saying “leopard is simply a neutral” has ne'er been much existent – which means it goes with everything, arsenic bash jeans. Go for a brace of leopard people denims for a relaxed feel. This is the cleanable bottommost for the extremity of summertime and moving into autumn.
START SMALL:
It mightiness dependable cliched but each stylist knows that if you are wary of a inclination you should effort it archetypal successful accessory form. A leopard people footwear is surely worthy trying and volition instantly marque your outfit stylish. Fashion icons Kate Moss and Alexa Chung made it effortlessly chill successful the noughties. Even Elizabeth Taylor was a fan.
DO A DRESS:
It doesn’t substance the silhouette, magnitude oregon adjacent the size of the leopard people – with a dress, each the hard enactment is done for you. You tin simply propulsion it connected and go, similar Bridgerton histrion Simone Ashley successful Cannes. Channel your interior Sophia Loren. The people volition marque you consciousness confident, fierce and unstoppable.
MAKE IT THE FOCUS:
With a engaged people similar leopard, the easiest mode to deterioration it is to clasp it and marque it the focal constituent of your look. For example, if you incorporated it arsenic an accessory past support the remainder of your outfit neutral. And erstwhile wearing, don’t marque it clash oregon effort to enactment harder by mixing prints, it is meant to marque a connection truthful fto it.
BUT DON’T OVERKILL:
However, portion it is each good and bully making leopard the focal point, don’t spell overboard. A leopard overgarment with a leopard top, leopard skirt, leopard shoes, and a leopard container whitethorn get you immoderate looks connected the street, but for each the incorrect reasons. So take your pieces wisely. That doesn’t mean to accidental you can’t deterioration a leopard co-ord, but past accessorise with thing plainer.
FIND YOUR SHADE:
No leopard is created equal, truthful cognize what volition suit your hairsbreadth colouring erstwhile you are looking for a shadiness of the yellowish oregon sometimes brownish base. A paler-coloured creamy benignant volition complement blonde oregon lighter reddish hair, affluent and deeper coloured bases are cleanable for acheronian reds.