Animal Kingdom, But Make it Fashion 🐁

This trend has legs.

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If your style’s been feeling a little too tame, 2025’s biggest fashion trend is overrunning the runway.

Animalcore, the use of animals as part of home decor, is already turning houses into mini menageries. According to House Beautiful and Apartment Therapy, this design trend goes beyond cheetah print stools or zebra print rugs. Think lifelike and sometimes life-size animals as decor - sheep as footstools, rattan dachshunds as bookshelves.

Now, that animal instinct has come for the runway with a wildly unexpected twist. The handbag dominating Copenhagen Fashion Week was...wait for it...a glamorous rat. Spotted at Anne Sofie Madsen’s comeback show, the hottest accessory of the season came down the runway in colorful variations of the rodent, in colorful, metallic finishes.

Louis Vuitton’s men Spring 2026 pre-collection went to the dogs as the brand unveiled its paw-sitively chic take on the trend with a stylish crossbody shaped like a