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 ...

Luxury designer Nancy Gonzalez, who sold handbags worth thousands of dollars to celebrities including Britney Spears, Kris Jenner and Victoria Beckham, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of ...

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 ...

In SoFlo, fall doesn’t mean cooler temps and falling palm fronds, but it does mean the start of a new season for accessories. And we found a designer with one of the season’s hottest bags — right here ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...