A Fun Way of Doing Leopard Print (A DIY Project for Fall)

Last summer when I was in Italy, I discovered the French brand Sandro. This brand didn't exist yet when I used to live in Paris but I saw a couple of stores the last time that I was in Paris (two years ago) and at that time I thought it was a little bit too boho for me.
Well, their last summer collection, that I could see and touch at the corner store that the brand has at La Rinascente (the italian version of Bloomingdales), left me swooning. Think vintage ladylike mixed with gamine, a little bit a la Alexa Chung for Madewell, but with better fabrics. I didn't buy anything (mostly because I thought I would come back another time and I never did) but now I regularly check their site for inspiration. The brand was sold in the US exclusively at Net-A-Porter and Stylebop, but it is now coming to Bloomingdales and their first US store is set to open in early Fall in NYC (on Bleecker street). So you will probably hear more about Sandro (at least on this blog).

What makes me think of Akexa Chung is that they both use peter pan collars to achieve that special vintage-gamine look. There isn't much that I would buy from their Fall collection to be honest (check out the Sandro alternative to the Teddie dress here), but I fell in love with this dress. What a genius idea, a simple black shift with a leopard-print peter pan collar! It's chic and young, love!

They also had a gorgeous grey crewneck sweater (now sold-out) with the same leopard peter pan collar detail and that's when a bulb went off in my head and I thought that the real genius idea would be to have a detachable peter pan collar in a leopard print to update an old simple black dress and/or cardigan and whatever you feel like.
So if I though of this, someone else in the business of making clothes must have too, right? Well, I almost spent an entire day on the Internet looking high and low and I found only one (ONE!) for sale, and not even in that camel color but in grey, at this Etsy boutique (if you want it, hurry, it's the last one). I can't believe that F21 doesn't have anything like this (but I haven't checked H&M and Zara)!

OK, so what are the options if you, like me want one of those?
1) Wait until for another one pops up on the Internet or in a store
2) Buy this dress on supersale and detach the collar (which requires some sewing abilities, I guess), then throw away what's left of the dress (I am only half joking, it is definitively less expensive and more versatile than buying the Sandro dress)
3) Do it yourself, it seems super-easy to do for the non sewing machine-challenged (like me). There are several tutorials on the YouTube like this one.

Personally I have NEVER finished a DIY project in my entire life (when he sees me getting excited for some project involving my manual skills like this one, my husband still reminds me about the feather and suede necklace that I tried to make years ago in Paris and never came to life) so I don't think that I will give it a try, but I would like to know if there is an adventurous soul out there.

For the rest of us Asos has an entire collection of detachable leather peter pan collars (for less than $30), even if not a leopard one. What about this one:

Or a navy one?

Do you like the idea of a leopard-print peter pan collar? Are you going to try to make one?