The aptly-named CatWalk Pets & Aquatics store in Essex was the unlikely setting for a glamorous fashion shoot at the weekend.

Women’s clothing label Lashes of London chose Catwalk in High Street, Barkingside, Ilford, as the setting for next year’s spring/summer collection.

Models posed with rabbits plus some of the shop’s more unusual residents, including chickens.

Fashion director Nicole Levy said she knew the shop because she lived in the area. “It wasn’t very logical, it’s just something I thought would be really fun and different.”

Catwalk Pets stocks all sorts of animals, including exotic lizards and even bats.

Owner Shazia Dar said: “A fashion shoot isn’t what you expect but it’s fantastic. I think they all ended up buying something, it was a fun day. It’s brilliant to introduce animals to fashion.”