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I am a recent convert to leopard print. Barring my 16 year old dalliance with 60s mod when I had a little cropped leopard print jacket and thought I was the Eurasian reincarnation of Edie Sedgwick (those days are much better left unsaid, really), I've never really been one to rhapsodise over leopard print. I have friends who buy everything in that speckled fabric that they see - jackets, shoes, bags, belts, scarfs, hats - you name it, they have it. I've admired it from afar but never thought I could love it myself. It was always a bit too showy, a bit too glamorous, a bit too decadent. Leopard print is always that print that recalls Milan's excess heyday, Versace and Cavalli and Gucci and women in leopard print dresses wearing enough diamonds to sink the Titanic. That just ain't me.
But when I look at leopard print now, I am more intrigued by the French take on it. They wear a touch of leopard - a little scarf, a chain bag, or a big coat - with an outfit that is otherwise quite plain. They treat leopard print like an accessory. In all black a leopard print coat becomes that statement piece that you add at the last minute to pull everything together. In a casual look of washed out denim and a simple coat a leopard print bag is that crazy thing you bought a million years ago that you wear to cheer yourself up. A touch of leopard is enough to hint at glamour and decadence and excess without going overboard.
I've convinced myself that I need a leopard print coat in my life - if only because I think that if I had one I could be as effortlessly undone as Alexandra Golovanoff or Valentine Fillol-Cordier. My friend has a great leopard print coat, it's not quite as bright as these ones, it's more subdued. The colours are like murky browns and blacks and it's really dark and I love it. That's my perfect coat. And the search begins...
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