Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, April 1992 This season, you can forget everything you’ve been told about investing in a simple set of wardrobe basics, because animal print has been dubbed “the new neutral.” Khaki trench coats and little black dresses are being tossed aside for leopard spots, zebra stripes, and snakeskin, which have flooded our Instagram feeds, shopping sites, and quotidian street corners. But why the sudden interest in all things animal? For decades, the furry leopard…