Pythons are bashed with hammers, impaled on hooks and skinned alive to provide skins used by Italian luxury brand Gucci to craft handbags, shoes and belts that sell for hundreds if not thousands of ...

Ever admired a snazzy pair of python boots? Snapped open an elegant python-skin clutch? Dreamed of cinching your jeans with a sleek python belt? Zach Hoffman is one of them. A transplant from Boston, ...

And just like that, she couldn’t slither out of this one. A celebrity handbag designer whose pricey creations were featured on “Sex and the City” and coveted by A-listers like Victoria Beckham was ...

A handbag designer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for importing bags made of rare skins. The bags were made from caiman and python skin, both protected under international trade laws. Nancy ...

An 'influential' Instagram star who admitted importing and selling fashion accessories made of endangered python skin has been warned she could face up to seven years in jail. Rich kid Stephanie ...

Burmese pythons, an invasive species in the Everglades, are being hunted and their skins used for luxury goods. Hunters like Zach Hoffman and Amy Siewe detail the process of skinning and preparing ...

An Instagram rich kid who imported £18,000 worth of endangered python-skin fashion accessories into the UK has avoided jail. Stephanie Scolaro, 26, was branded "utterly self-centred" by a judge at ...

A Colombian-born fashion designer, whose animal skin purses have been used by celebrities and characters in 'Sex and the City' and 'The Devil Wears Prada,' has been extradited to the U.S. on ...

The non-native snakes are overrunning Florida and must be eliminated. Fashion designers are determined to make sure their remains don’t go to waste. Most Burmese python hunters dispose of their snakes ...