By Vanessa Friedman Will we ever see the end of leopard print on women’s clothing? I recently met ... For centuries, leopard skin was a sign of wealth and power — Sheshat, the Egyptian goddess ...

"It's like abusing the animals if they're hunted to get the real skin," said 67-year-old Msoleni Manqele, who collected a manufactured copy of a leopard hide from a Shembe distribution office ...

Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962, wearing a controversial Oleg Cassini real leopard skin coat Credit: Rex But its rise to sartorial stardom isn’t all that sweet. The craze is said to have begun in ...