Not Leopard or Tiger—Cool Girls in New York Are Wearing This 2026 Animal Print Instead
It's always leopard print this, tiger print that. What about the reptilian prints out there? They never get any of the glory—until Tory Burch's F/W 26 show earlier this week.
The brand's runway presentation has quickly become one of the most highly anticipated shows on the New York Fashion Week calendar, and this year was no different. The hype around the show isn't just for the incredible clothing, which has become increasingly cool in recent seasons. It's also for the set of Tory girls sitting front row, all of whom epitomize a nonchalant vibe that's hard to describe. You just know it when you see it, and you will always see it at the Tory Burch show.
This season, Amanda Seyfried attended, wearing an impeccable outfit that revealed a belly button ring she's had since she was 17. The unexpected accessory peeked out from her unbuttoned crinkled gold button-down, which she paired with a frosty-blue skirt and the brand's best-selling Pierced heels in a snakeskin print.
If you want to add an animalistic vibe to your look, Seyfried proved that you don't have to default to the most common options. Snakeskin is just as fierce as the big-cat prints and still feels like a neutral. If it goes with a gold top and icy-blue skirt, it'll go with anything. And that's exactly why Seyfried's Pierced snaky Tory heels are going straight onto our mood board and then into our cart.
Shop snakeskin heels below.

Tara Gonzalez is a senior fashion and social editor at WhoWhatWear. where she is interested in exploring the intersection of fashion and culture and why we are drawn to wearing the things we wear and what that says about the world we live in. Previously she worked as a senior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. When she isn't writing trend deep dives for WWW, she's working on her newsletter on Substack, Cult Classic, which explores the very best fashion in film and television. She has a degree in creative writing from The University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and pug Bjork, the later of which has a very extensive collection of dog-sized Sandy Liang sweaters.