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It’s a jungle out there – and a leopard print coat gives you big cat energy on the streets | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion


Leopard makes you look punchy and unpredictable, even when you are in the salad aisle at Sainsbury’s Local

In the ranks of lifestyle accessories guaranteed to spark conversation with complete strangers on the street, leopard print is second only to a newborn baby, and considerably less trouble. This is not the cool, considered admiration you feel when you see a well-tailored blazer, a beautifully coiffed updo or a perfectly ironed shirt. Cassini himself was so horrified by the scale of slaughter he’d inadvertently unleashed (he talked of in the years after his coat) that he became an anti-fur campaigner.

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