For months I’ve been saying that animal print is a dying trend and the Spring 2025 shows are the necessary proof. I felt convinced about it but I still kept seeing major fashion publications calling animal print a key trend back before the Spring 2025 shows started. I’m glad that I stuck to my instincts on this trend forecast, as the Spring 2025 shows have proved my point. I was convinced that Fall 2024 was the peak of the animal print trend and that it would then drop off drastically. This data analysis from 15 different brands shows the evolution of the animal print trend across three seasons, from past to present. The trend toward zero animal print in Spring 2025 is obvious, with a clear peak already having happened; for most brands this was in Fall 2024.
Brands in the featured image are (from left to right): Michael Kors Collection Spring 2024, Marni Fall 2024, Isabel Marant Fall 2024, and Zimmermann Fall 2024.
So what does this mean for you? It’s time to stop investing in animal print and focus on other prints instead, but which? Polka dot is gaining traction, and wide stripes remain a key trend too.
Isabel Marant
Isabel Marant is one of the designers who has used animal print the most in their recent collections. In Pre-Fall 2024, 29% of looks featured animal print, while in Fall 2024, that number rose to 44% of all looks – almost half of the collection! There was a drastic drop by the Resort 2025 collection, and only 9% of looks featured the trend.
Rochas
At Rochas the animal print trend saw its peak in the Fall 2023 season with 14% of looks featuring the trend. In Fall 2024, 4% of looks featured animal print, and in Spring 2025 the collection didn’t feature it at all.
KNWLS
KNWLS hopped on the trend for one season only: just over a quarter of looks in the Fall 2024 season featured animal print.
Zimmermann
With no animal print looks at all in Spring 2024, Zimmermann suddenly had 13% of looks in Fall 2024 featuring the print. By Resort 2025, this figure had dropped off to 8% of all looks.
McQueen
It’s important to note the change in creative director here. Spring 2024 at McQueen (then still branded as Alexander McQueen) was Sarah Burton’s last show, with no sign of animal print whatsoever. Fall 2024 was the debut show of new creative director Seán McGirr with the brand now named just McQueen, and the runway show featuring 12% of looks with animal print. Resort 2025 had none at all.
Michael Kors Collection
A bit of an outlier in the choice of animal print used, Michael Kors Collection Spring 2024 featured giraffe print – most other designers were sticking to leopard print. The brand never went into the trend too heavily – 5% of looks in Spring 2024, dropping to 2% in Fall 2024, and then none at all in Spring 2025.
Marine Serre
The patchworked looks at Marine Serre featured animal print most heavily in the Fall 2024 collection – 14% of all looks. There had been just one look in the previous Spring 2024 Menswear collection, and then none at all in the most recent Spring 2025 Menswear collection.
Versace
Donatella Versace added some animal print to the Fall 2024 collection, with 5% of looks featuring the print. A third of looks (33%) in Resort 2025 featured the trend, but in Spring 2025 she had dropped the print completely.
Diesel
Animal print by Glenn Martens at Diesel was more of a stylized look: there were 8% of looks in Fall 2024, 4% in Resort 2025, and none at all in Spring 2025.
Rabanne
Similar to Marine Serre, taking quite a patchworked and mix-and-match approach in Fall 2024, was Julien Dossena at Rabanne. This included the use of animal print, with 9% of looks featuring the print. In Resort 2025 that number had dropped to 6%, and then in Spring 2025 there was none at all.
Marni
One of the brands who featured animal print for just one season, giving the impression that the trend was a sort of flash-in-the-pan, is Marni. Out of the three most recent seasons, only Fall 2024 featured animal print, in 11% of looks.
Alaia
Pieter Mulier, creative director of Alaia, ignored animal print until (and after) Fall 2024, with 5% of the season’s looks featuring the trend. Spring 2024 and Spring 2025 omitted the print.
Marie Adam-Leenaerdt
Spring 2024 and Fall 2024 both featured animal print in 3% of looks; Spring 2025 excluded the print entirely.
Balenciaga
At Balenciaga, Demna Gvasalia employed animal print in 3% of looks in Pre-Fall 2024, 4% of looks in Fall 2024, and 2% of looks in Resort 2025.
No21
Alessandro Dell’Acqua’s No21 shows a clear decline in this trend: 7% of looks in Fall 2024, 6% in Resort 2025 and 2% in Spring 2025.
So what’s next?
Other prints are gaining traction: polka dot, delicate florals, and wide stripes are all trending instead. Solid colours are also key, with new neutrals of khaki, tan, and oxblood. 1970s colours are also key, with earth tones including brown, yellow ochre, and green becoming more prominent, along with aubergine purple. Chalk mint has been gaining popularity, while bright coral is being used as a standout colour for accents and contrasts.
There is one outlier in all of this that I have to mention. Prada had no sign of animal print in both Spring 2024 and Fall 2024 but one single leopard print coat in Spring 2025. This is particularly curious to me as I see Prada as one of the major trend-setting brands, which makes their usage of leopard print here put them as a laggard in terms of trend adoption rates. I don’t feel that this will impact the animal print trend (and its death) in a major way as the coat itself was a bit of an outlier within the entire collection. There are of course more Spring 2025 collections yet to be seen at Paris Fashion Week, and I may yet eat my words, but for now I am sticking to my convictions and declaring this trend officially over.