アンダーグラウンドのインスタグラム(resul80k2) - 11月6日 00時11分

#LeopardPrint.
This isn't a 'How-to', or the 'do's and don't's' of how to wear leopard print.This is the brief history of the subcultural significance of wearing leopard print- an animal skin that transcends rebellious groups and fashions. It just something you do or you don't.

A primal pattern that, in nature, is designed to blend in with your environment, but in Western culture, it has spent an age as an aesthetic designed to make you stand out from the crowd. A style that is not for the fainthearted, Leopard skin is something that seemingly never left fashion like many so many fads. Arguably, it seems that although it regularly recycles back and forth on the runway, it is often not adopted by the mass consumer. Ubiquitous yet underground, this gives it room to never go out of date. But what happened in it's modern, cultural history that marginalized it's adoptive group so powerfully? Leopard is synonymous with the seedy, the sexual, the rebellious and raunchy. What differentiates the pattern from a polka dot or gingham- two prints that denote the exact opposite of Leopard- and that swing in and out of mass wardrobes yearly? The fact that even in 2017- an internet search of the the term brings up countless articles of it's acceptability in the workplace; patronising listicles of how and how not to wear it; or one even called 'Is Leopard Print Terrible or Terrific?' from the Guardian.
The hunt for it's origins is a quest in natural and Paleolithic history, but it's entrance into modern Western culture only stems back a century or so. The hide of a leopard is prevalent in many ancient tribes where the land was shared with the animal, such as the Zulu warriors who would ceremonially adorn themselves in the skin. The is an early instance of the print connoting masculinity and displays of virility, trophies of male prowess. It was in the horrific colonial pillaging of African and other indigenous lands that first saw rich, powerful men take on the same ceremony- displaying the heads and skins of the animals on the walls of their homes.

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