It has always been fascinating to see how forward-looking designers mine early cultures, textures, and materials and make them look current. 

Everything we do or experience is constantly changing while at the same time we are somewhat locked in cyclical comebacks. Undoubtedly, fashion and history march together, celebrating a repetition of one another by creating the fusion of past and future anew. In fashion, the future reinvents the past and the past influences the future. This is how fashion works: the new revamp the old but with a much stronger modern twist.&nbsp;Let&#39;s have another look at the references of the past that we observe nowadays.&nbsp;

The latest fashion weeks&#39; runway collections for Spring/Summer 2022 were inundated with animal prints across all four cities, rendered both realistically and abstractly. Yes, AGAIN, fashion&#39;s longstanding love affair with animal prints was apparent.

Collections spring summer 2022:

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It&#39;s a widespread belief that animal prints channel power to the wearer. As early as the eighteenth century, fashionable dresses were made from fabrics with prints and colours mimicking the skins of animals. It was all about wild cats - leopard and cheetah in past decades, especially during Dior&#39;s reign. Nowadays, we can see that zebra and snakeskin have been added. Today&#39;s style of animal print is well-rounded. But as it always happens in fashion, inspiration comes from all the previous decades, and that&#39;s why animal print is classy yet attractive.

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Those prints symbolize so much from sleek and poised to mysterious and vicious &ndash; elements that many female icons throughout history have used to express their personalities. They enhance the diva persona of the celebrities who are known for wearing the garments.

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The garments in animal prints represent the excitement, adventure, and independence of spirit, especially unusual for depictions of women during earlier times.

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Since animal pelts and prints were quite fit to represent the free-spirited independence and keen interest in world cultures in the 1970s and 1980s, they became very popular for dresses, leggings, and accessories. Animal motifs were perfectly suitable to the combination of extravagance, bold shapes, and bright colors of that period. Dominico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have made animal prints the signature of their brand.

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Animal prints are a constant fixture in fashion, no matter the year or the season. It&#39;s usually a matter of pinpointing what specific fauna-inspired graphic designers gravitate to in a particular period of time.&nbsp; We think that past fashion will always be meaningful, relative, and vital to contemporary designers. Quite a few fashion inventions are timeless and still appeal to many people today.

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