As far as I can tell by just walking around central Zagreb, a pattern resembling leopard spots is the rage this year. Almost every woman with ambition sports the same pattern, which I actually associate with Russian women. It was popular with them five or six years ago, if not even longer. Sitting in one of the Motovun cafés during the tourist season, I could tell a Russian group of tourists from afar by the leopard spots on shirts, pants, hats, and bags. Back then, the pattern was simply ridiculous, albeit in an almost endearing sort of way, but it is outright pitiful by now. All of a sudden, I find myself surrounded by Russian women of ambition in the middle of the Croatian capital. The trendsetters, no doubt.