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Spotted on the catwalks: leopard prints roar back into fashion for autumn

Beloved of Kate Moss, Bet Lynch and a host of others, the style stalwart has been having a new moment in Paris

“Leopard print seems to offer a break from that without being OTT.” She also links the current interest to the wider Y2K revival: “trends are known to move in 20-year cycles, so it was due a comeback from its noughties popularity – just think back to Scary Spice,” she says. Actual leopard skins were popular in the 20th century – women in the 1920s wore it as a badge of status – but movie stars such as Joan Crawford, Jayne Mansfield and Audrey Hepburn helped boost the profile of the print, and It gained a rock’n’roll makeover in the 70s and 80s when worn by the likes of Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, Divine and Tina Turner, while in the 90s it crossed both the Spice Girls and Britpop bands including Lauren Laverne’s Kenickie.

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